Engineering Manager

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, visit amplify.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.
We are looking for a dedicated and passionate Engineering Manager to be a leader within a technology team where every engineer is responsible for the quality of our product and the happiness of our students and teachers. 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

• Technical Leadership: Collaboratively guide your team to be innovative and select appropriate architectures, strategies, and tech stacks. React is our chosen framework but there are many options to explore within it.

• Technical Guidance: Foster strong technical practices (code review, architectural planning, security by design) within your team and across multiple teams.

• Execution: Work with product leads to ensure your team has a high-value, high-velocity, and responsive product development lifecycle.

• Delivery: Take responsibility for successful delivery against quarterly OKRs, including leading your team in establishing standard processes in estimation, requirements analysis, balancing trade-offs, and completing against commitments.

• Communication and Collaboration: Work with Senior technical management, direct reports, offshore resources, Product Owners, Designers and QA to ensure smooth working relationships.

• Strategy: Collaborate with business, product, design and tech leadership to drive business, product, and technical strategy and goals for your team.

• People management: Provide technical leadership, career development, coaching, and mentoring for engineers.

Example Projects You Might Work On

• Crafting immersive, compelling and equitable experiences for teachers and students that run great across platforms under variable memory and network constraints.

• Implementing logic that handles student work: from persistence to selecting the right activity for the right student at the right moment.

• Optimizing software so that it can handle millions of kids with stability and security in mind, thus making life better for hard-working teachers.

• Ensuring existing software continues to function well by monitoring apps to make sure they are available to teachers and classrooms.

• Improving our workflows and tooling in order to frequently and confidently ship new features and functionality to classrooms.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent technical experience demonstrating strong CS fundamentals.
• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 2 years proven track record building and managing development teams delivering complex projects while still being a hands-on leader.
• Deep knowledge of Javascript, React, and Redux.
• Experience deploying production systems in the cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Strong communication skills in writing, conversation, and maybe silly gifs
• Familiarity with agile product development methodologies.

Extra Credit For

• Experience with tools we use every day:
• Front-end frameworks: React, Redux, the next thing that will replace them all
• Back-end frameworks: Serverless, AWS Lambdas, Node.js
• Tools and systems: Linux, Docker, AWS, Datadog, Terraform, Jenkins
• Data stores: DynamoDB, Postgres, AWS S3
• Video Conferencing Platforms: Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams (3rd party integrations)
• Experience in AWS toolchains and DevOps.
• Proven passion for building and learning: open source contributions, pet projects, self-education, Stack Overflow.
• Experience in education or ed-tech.
• Compassion for the end user

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.