Associate 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, visitamplify.com.

Amplify is a leader in creating immersive, rigorous digital learning experiences that look great, play great, and help students expect great things of themselves. Amplify has been described as the best tech company in education, and the best education company in tech.

As an engineer at Amplify, you will join a talented team tackling the toughest problems in education with the best ideas in technology - including user experience, APIs and services, data analysis, and deployment pipelines. You'll play an active role in imagining and improving product design and the classroom experience.

Amplify's COVID-19 vaccination policy requires all staff to provide proof of vaccination for in-person meetings unless an approved exemption is provided.

What You'll Do

• Make life better for passionate teachers by:

  • meeting the ultimate reliability and uptime challenge for digital tools - is this better than paper?

  • building well structured and documented RESTful APIs so that our apps can share data with ease

  • shipping code from your laptop to classrooms frequently and confidently

• Help school administrators build great schools by:

  • building data pipelines that respect privacy and ensure security while offering useful insights

  • implementing code that runs great across platforms under variable memory and network constraints

  • analyzing performance and squashing tricky bugs using tools like Datadog, Alert Logic, and AWS CloudWatch

• Learn every day by:

  • collaborating, pull request-ing, and mentoring on a cross-functional team

  • participating in cross-team share-outs, brownbags, and workshop series

Example Projects You Might Work On

• Architecting algorithms to select the right activity for the right student at the right moment.

• Creating teacher and student friendly front-end components, assessments and reporting pages.

• Crunching data from student activities to show teachers just the right advice

• Simulating hundreds of thousands of kids to implement scaling, stability, and security improvements

• Improving our deployment and testing automation pipelines

You Must Have

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent

• Strong CS and software engineering fundamentals

• Ability to write code expertly in at least two dissimilar languages (Ideally Python, Javascript and/or Java/J2EE)

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Understanding of good software design and modern software engineering practices

Extra Credit For

• MS in Computer Science or equivalent

• Experience with tools we use every day:

  • Front-end frameworks: React, Redux, the next thing that will replace them all

  • Back-end frameworks: Node.js, AWS Lambdas, AWS AppSync (GraphQL)

  • Tools and systems: Linux, Docker, AWS, Datadog, Terraform, Jenkins

  • Data stores: DynamoDB, Postgres, AWS S3

• Experience in the field of user authentication

• Proven passion for building and learning: open source contributions, pet projects, self-education, Stack Overflow

• Experience in education or ed-tech

What we offer:

Salary is only one component of the Amplify Total Rewards package, which includes a lucrative 401(k) plan, incentive stock options, 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 salary range for this role is $99,750 - $105,000. This role is eligible to receive an annual discretionary bonus that rewards individual and company performance.

We celebratediversityand 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 adiversecandidate pool.

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

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

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