Senior Product Engineer - Core Platform

Job Description

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform. More than 1,800 customers, including Atlassian, Chick-fil-A, Marks & Spencer, NBCUniversal, PayPal, Shopify, and Under Armour rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. With Amplitude, teams can understand what product features are working, where users are getting stuck, and what actions lead to the right outcomes. As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables creation of better products, ability to solve complex problems, and drive more powerful solutions. In order to make diversity possible, we commit to striving to create an environment of inclusion: an environment focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection, which will allow employees of all backgrounds to feel the care they need to thrive.

About The Role & Team

Amplitude is the pioneer in digital optimization software. More than 1,400 customers, including Atlassian, Instacart, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour rely on Amplitude to power their digital products. Amplitude makes product data accessible to every member of an organization, empowering them to make data-driven decisions that fuel faster product innovation and growth. As an organization, we approach challenges with humility, take ownership of our contributions, and embrace a growth mindset that pushes us to constantly improve ourselves, each other, and the value we bring to customers and partners.

The Product Engineering Platform team offers a consolidation of shared services that supports multiple functional teams of the Amplitude product suite. The mission of this team is to provide Amplitude customers a unified and consistent customer experience among all Amplitude offerings.

As a Senior Full Stack Engineer, you will:

• Participate in architecture, design and development of features for the company’s Product Engineering Platform team
• Solve complex web software development problems and build the necessary support on the backend
• Be able to design complex automated test cases for the system
• Suggest and implement improvements to the development processes

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• You have 5+ years of experience working in a full stack engineering role.
• Experience with one of the following programming languages: Javascript, NodeJS, Python
• Experienced in building RESTful APIs and API Communication
• Good grasp of asynchronous programming
• Able to troubleshoot system-level integration and performance issues
• Fast learner and eager to absorb new emerging technologies
• Enjoys working with different teams with strong collaboration and communication skills

Engineering Principles at Amplitude:

At Amplitude, our goal is to innovate and solve customer pain. In addition to the company’s Cultural Values, we believe that following these Engineering Principles to make decisions will help us solve the most pain for our customers over time. :

• Ship Fast. Take risks and put things in front of customers in order to learn and iterate. We prioritize innovation and to maximize iterations of getting features in front of customers.
• Own the Product Experience. Do Engineering to solve customer pain, no for engineering’s sake. Have ownership over the product and the holistic customer problem.
• Company > Team > Me. Your success comes from making the company and team successful. Proactivity makes the people and processes around you better.

Who We Are

The Company: Amplitude is filled with humble, life-long learners who are eager to help one another and the company succeed. Our values of growth mindset, ownership, and humility are core to the way we work: we’re tenacious in the face of challenges, we take the initiative to solve problems that drive our shared success, and we operate from a place of empathy and openness, seeking to understand many points of view.

We care about the well-being of our team: along with excellent health insurance, we offer flexible time off, a monthly wellness stipend, a generous parental leave, a subscription to Modern Health, and a generous Learning & Development stipend.

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform – we help companies understand their users, rapidly release better product experiences, and ultimately grow their business. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

Other fun facts about Amplitude:

• G2: #1 product analytics solution and #3 best software product
• Business Insider: A top tech company to bet your career on
• Fast Company: #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world
• Amplitude went public via a direct listing in September 2021 and is now trading under the ticker AMPL.
• Founded in 2012, Amplitude is backed by Benchmark Capital, Sequoia Capital, IVP, Battery Ventures, Y Combinator and other top tier investors.
• We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and employees around the world.
• Our mascot is the datamonster, who loves to chow down on numbers, charts, and graphs. Nom nom.

Amplitude provides equal employment opportunities (EEO). All applicants are considered without regards to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation.