Senior Software Engineer, Frontend Infrastructure

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San Francisco, CA
Senior level
Software
The Role
As a Senior Software Engineer at Amplitude, you'll enhance frontend systems for product teams, standardizing tools, optimizing performance, mentoring peers, and leading architectural decisions with a focus on scalability and maintainability.
Summary Generated by Built In

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. More than 3,500 customers, including Atlassian, Jersey Mike’s, NBCUniversal, Shopify, and Under Armour, rely on Amplitude to gain self-service visibility into the entire customer journey. Amplitude guides companies every step of the way as they capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. When teams understand how people are using their products, they can deliver better product experiences that drive 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.

Amplitude’s Commitment to Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI): Amplitude believes that diversity enables the creation of better products, improves the ability to solve complex problems, and drives more powerful solutions. We strive to create an environment of inclusion—one focused on psychological safety, empathy, and human connection—that will allow employees of all backgrounds to thrive.


About The Role & Team

We’re looking for a senior engineer to help build the systems that enable our product engineers to succeed. You will be responsible for the workflows for the entire engineering team, ensuring everyone standardizes on the same tooling with scalability, testability, maintainability and robustness in mind. You will be making decisions on what state management libraries, graphql data fetching libraries, micro-frontend architecture, and shared state management systems we use. You will be responsible for driving the execution of these decisions to make sure we achieve 100% adoption in the org, with the support of the team.

As a Senior Engineer you will:

  • Create & maintain high level design & documentation about our frontend architecture, showing how all the pieces come together with detailed deep dives in key areas.
  • Collaboratively curate a series of frontend standards and guidelines, building a migration plan to reach eventual adoption and ensure in code reviews they are followed, and ultimately executing on that plan.
  • Participate in engineering discussions and mentor others on engineering best practices.
  • Identify key areas of optimization to increase application performance.
  • Evaluate new frameworks and tools, setting our technical direction and push towards standardization.
  • Mentor other engineers in best practices, training them to have an outsized impact on the codebase.
  • Evangelize the work, sharing in large all-hands meetings changes proposed and measured success metrics.

You’ll be a great fit if you:

  • Have 4+ years of experience developing the frontend infrastructure that enables products to be built
  • Emphasis on JavaScript / TypeScript 
  • Have experience working in a frontend infrastructure role.
  • Thrive in a technical leadership role on an engineering team, and are constantly seeking opportunities to encourage those around you to excel.
  • Like to work closely with other engineers to understand their developer experience problems, iteratively collecting feedback.
  • Have a good understanding of current and emerging trends in web application development.

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. 

The Product: Amplitude is a digital analytics platform—we help companies capture data they can trust, uncover clear insights about customer behavior, and take faster action. This empowers teams to build better product experiences that drive business growth. We’re super proud of what we’ve built and continue to expand: a platform that empowers companies to thrive in the digital era.

We care about the well-being of our team: We offer competitive pay and benefits packages that reflect our commitment to the health and well-being of our Ampliteers.

Some of our benefit programs include:

  • Excellent ​M​edical, ​D​ental and ​V​ision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee ​M​edical, ​D​ental,​ ​​​​​​​​Vision on select plans
  • Flexible time off, ​p​aid holidays, and more
  • Generous stipends to spend on what matters most to you, whether that’s wellness (monthly), commuter transit/parking (monthly), learning and development (quarterly), home office equipment (annual), and much more
  • Excellent Parental benefits including​:​ 12-20 weeks of Paid Parental Leave, Carrot Fertility Benefits/Adoption/Surrogacy support, Back-up Child Care support 
  • Mental health and wellness benefits including no cost employee access to Modern Health coaching & therapy Sessions and high quality physician office experience via One Medical membership (select U.S. locations only)
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program​ (ESPP)​

Other fun facts about Amplitude: 

  • We were recognized in the Newsweek Excellence Index 2024.
  • Our customers love us! They've said we're the #1 product analytics solution for 15 quarters in a row on G2.
  • We're focused on growth. Check us out in Deloitte’s 2023 Technology Fast 500™
  • We care A LOT about product innovation. Fast Company called us the #3 most innovative enterprise company in the world.
  • We invest in our people. We offer mentorship programs, management training, and wellness initiatives. 
  • We give back to our communities. We give every Ampliteer a charitable giving grant and paid volunteer time off. 
  • We were founded in 2012, went public via a direct listing in September 2021, and are now trading under the ticker $AMPL. 
  • We’re a global and fast-growing team! We have employees around the world and offices in San Francisco (HQ), New York, Vancouver, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo.
  • 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.

This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in San Francisco Bay Area of California. Salary range: $170,000 - $256,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)
Based on legislation in California, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in California outside of the San Francisco Bay Area. California salary range: $154,000 - $231,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)


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We are aware of individuals and entities fraudulently representing themselves as Amplitude recruiters and/or hiring managers. Amplitude will never ask for financial information or payment, or for personal information such as bank account number or social security number during the job application or interview process. Any emails from the Amplitude recruiting team will come from an @amplitude.com email address. You can learn more about how to protect yourself from these types of fraud by referring to this article. Please exercise caution and cease communications if something feels suspicious about your interactions.

Top Skills

JavaScript
Typescript
The Company
New York, NY
505 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2012

What We Do

Amplitude is the Digital Optimization System. Powered by the proprietary Amplitude Behavioral Graph, the Digital Optimization System enables organizations to see and predict which combination of features and actions translate to business outcomes – from loyalty to lifetime value – and intelligently adapt each experience in real-time based on these insights. Amplitude is the brain behind more than 45,000 digital products at over 1,000 enterprise customers and 23 of the Fortune 100, helping them innovate faster and smarter by answering the strategic question: "How do our digital products drive our business?"

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