A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our captivating 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 turn data into practical instructional support to help all students build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than three million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit .
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.
We hire engineers "for the slope, not the intercept" - we're looking for intellectual ability, flexibility and ability to learn, and commitment to work together in tight-knit teams.
What You'll Do
Impress the toughest customers around - seventh graders - by:
building engaging, quirky, fast frontends using frameworks like Angular and React
Make life better for passionate, overworked 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 New Relic, Splunk, 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
Crafting immersive animated environments and characters using the latest web and canvas frameworks
Architecting algorithms to select the right activity for the right student at the right moment.
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 Have
BS in Computer Science or equivalent
1+ years of professional software development experience
Proven fluency in at least two of JavaScript, Python, SQL
Extra Credit For
Experience with tools we use every day:
Front-end frameworks: Angular, React, the next thing that will replace them all
Back-end frameworks: Nodejs Express, Java Dropwizard
Tools and systems: Linux, Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Splunk, Datadog
Data stores: Postgres, Redshift, S3
Experience in AWS toolchains and devops
Proven passion for building and learning: open source contributions, pet projects, self-education, Stack Overflow
Professional work experience in the education or ed-tech field
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 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.