What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Software Engineer, Web SDK position at Amplitude?
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 an engineer to work within our SDK engineering team, which is an integral piece of our Amplitude ecosystem. You will have full ownership of our open source data collection libraries and plugins. These products are used by thousands of customers to send hundreds of billions of events to Amplitude each month. If you're passionate about building software that wows other developers and changes the way they think about analytics.
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
- Lead Development of Web SDKs: Design, build, and maintain Amplitude's web SDKs, ensuring high performance, scalability, and ease of integration.
- Work Across Multiple Technologies: Leverage your polyglot skills to write and test code in various languages, frameworks, and tools.
- Support Developer Integration: Provide technical guidance and troubleshooting support to engineers integrating our analytics SDKs into their web applications.
- Write and Maintain Developer Documentation: Produce and refine high-quality documentation, including guides, README files, and technical documentation hosted on our docs site.
- Enhance Build and Deployment Pipelines: Extend CI/CD systems to automate building, testing, and deploying SDKs to npm and other package managers, ensuring smooth releases.
- Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with product managers and designers to iterate on features and deliver a polished developer experience.
- Champion Engineering Excellence: Lead technical discussions, contribute to architectural decisions, and mentor team members on best practices for web development.
At a minimum you need to have:
- Proven experience developing SDKs or libraries for the web, with a focus on performance and usability.
- Familiarity with techniques like tree-shaking and distributing SDKs via CDNs for optimal efficiency.
You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:
- Experience working across the full stack, especially with Node.js and modern web frameworks.
- An eye for detail and a commitment to delivering polished, high-quality solutions.
- A track record of shipping libraries with intuitive, elegant APIs, widely adopted internally or as open-source projects.
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 Medical, Dental and Vision insurance coverages, with 100% employer-paid premiums for employee Medical, Dental, Vision on select plans
- Flexible time off, paid 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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Salary : $154,000 - $231,000
