Senior Software Engineer

A pioneer in K–12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

As an engineer on Amplify’s Learning Experience team you will join a talented team tackling the toughest problems in education, developing our cutting edge platform to support K–12 math, science and language arts curriculum products. The Learning Experience team is at the heart of Amplify’s curriculum platform and is responsible for back and front end components covering: content authoring, the in-lesson student and teacher experience, and supporting teacher tooling.

What you’ll do

Our fully remote engineering team builds elegant and flexible systems that can quickly respond to design and pedagogy demands. You will work in cross-functional teams alongside product managers, designers, data scientists and education experts on a variety of impactful projects and have involvement in initiatives from ideation phases through to production release.

Senior software engineer responsibilities in the Learning Experience team:

• Shape and build high quality, robust, scalable software solutions that help Amplify build and maintain a best-in-class learning platform.

• Develop TypeScript code across front-end and back-end components including automated tests and related tooling.

• Reviewing code from other engineers on the team, bringing your keen eye for pragmatic and elegant solutions to challenging problems.

• Collaborate with our DevOps team in developing, managing and monitoring our deployment processes and infrastructure.

• Ensuring that our software meets the needs of all students and works reliably in real classrooms. Engaging in proactive testing and monitoring of our systems and guaranteeing a good experience for our end users.

• Participating in a collaborative learning environment within Amplify engineering: reviewing code from other engineers and participating in learning sessions to foster best practices and engineering culture. 

Examples of projects you could work on:

• Providing dashboard tooling for teachers to manage a lesson while they walk around the classroom and interact with students.

• Extend Computation Layer - an in-browser domain specific language for authoring interactive and social activities - by making it more powerful and easy for teachers and Amplify authors to use.

• Adding a flexible mechanism for dynamic automated spoken and animated feedback to be authored into lessons.

• Implementing tooling that allows teachers to create and share feedback with students in real time.

• Integrating modern translation tooling into our lesson authoring platform, allowing our lessons to be delivered in a range of languages.

• Implementing first class support for accessible keyboard interactions within our sketch tool.

Basic qualifications and experience requirements

• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent degree or training.

• 3+ years of professional software development experience.

• Understanding of good software design and modern software engineering practices.

• Understanding of modern frontend and backend web technologies.

• Strong problem solving ability and experience working within complex systems and large code bases.

• Ability to work in a fast paced, collaborative setting and engage in self-driven learning.

• Ability to articulate technical concepts verbally and in writing.

• A passion for working on education products and a desire to make them more equitable and accessible.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with web technology and our tech stack is a bonus but not required.

• Our tech stack:

• Languages and frameworks: TypeScript, Node.js, Express, Nx, React, ESBuild

• Data stores: Experience with modern data stores such as MongoDB and DynamoDB

• Cloud infrastructure: Experience in managing cloud-based infrastructure using tools like AWS, Datadog, Terraform, and Docker

• Testing: Proficiency in automated testing techniques, with experience in testing frameworks like Jest and WebdriverIO

What we offer:
Salary is only one component of the Amplify Total Rewards package, which includes a 401(k) plan, competitive health insurance and mental health options, basic life insurance, paid time off, parental leave, and access to best-in-class development programs. The gross annualized salary range for this role is $120,000 - $140,000. This role is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. 

Amplify is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, Veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. 

This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.

Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.

If selected, a background check will be required. As required by state and local laws and district policies, you may also be required to provide additional documentation, such as proof of vaccination or submit to enhanced background screening, including fingerprints.