Senior Software Engineer, Internal Systems

About The Role & Team

The Internal Systems team is the integral, central team that drives progress between PD and Business Orgs through key feature implementation that empowers our internal business teams to do what they do best. We do this by providing centralized ways to leverage key customer insights/data to drive efficiency across our GTM teams, as well as several of our ancillary teams (e.g BizOps, other Product Development teams). Overall our mission is to bridge Amplitude the business with Amplitude the product through foundational infrastructure and internal operational tooling.

 As a Senior Full Stack Engineer you will: 

• Work across our entire stack using Typescript, React + Redux, CSS Modules, GraphQL, Node, Python, Postgres, and MySQL.
• Participate in architecture, design and development of features for the company’s Internal Systems team
• Solve complex backend software engineering problems and build the necessary support for them on the frontend
• Lead projects, from ideation and implementation, through to launch
• Suggest and implement improvements to our development processes 

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

• have 3+ years of experience working in a backend or fullstack engineering role.
• Have proficiency with SQL and its variations among popular databases
• Are experienced in building RESTful APIs and Backend Systems
• Have a good grasp of asynchronous programming
• Are a fast learner and eager to absorb new emerging technologies
• enjoy working with different teams & have strong collaboration and communication skills
• Have a bias for action; you’d rather implement, learn from results, and iterate quickly than spend a lot of time tweaking and perfecting things
• Bonus points if you have:
• Experience building internal tooling for internal teams
• Experience with automation
• Experience working with business systems

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.