• Job Description

  Req#: Req_11663

  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 15 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit amplify.com.

  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.

  Your responsibilities will include:

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

  • Create comprehensive unit and functional tests that cover the various execution paths

  • Implementing code that runs that can scale in a cloud environment

  • Analyzing performance and squashing tricky bugs using tools like Datadog and AWS CloudWatch

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

  • 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.

  • Providing engineering support to ensure a smooth and speedy Onboarding process for all Amplify customers

  Examples of projects you could work on

  • Architecting reusable and scalable code to process district data at scale as it is provided by 3rd party systems

  • Designing and implementing APIs to make rostering information available to Amplify services

  • Simulating millions of requests to implement scaling, stability, and security improvements

  • Improving our deployment and testing automation pipelines

  Basic qualifications and experience requirements

  • BS in Computer Science or equivalent

  • 6+ months of work and/or internship experience

  • Strong CS and software engineering fundamentals

  • Ability to write code expertly in at least two dissimilar languages (Ideally Node.js)

  • Proven experience working with SQL using RDBMS

  • Good working knowledge of testing frameworks

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills

  • Understanding of good software design and modern software engineering practices

  Preferred Qualifications

  • MS in Computer Science or equivalent

  • Experience with tools we use every day:

    • Back-end frameworks: Node.js, Javascript, Python, Express, AWS Lambdas, AWS DynamoDB, AWS SQS

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

    • Data stores: DynamoDB, Postgres, AWS S3

  • Experience developing in a cloud environment, ideally AWS

  • Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker)

  • 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 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 salary range for this role is $94,000 - $108,000. This role is eligible to earn 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.

• About the company

  Amplify is a curriculum and assessment company launched in July 2012.

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