Senior Software Engineer @ Amplitude

Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. More than 3,200 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:

Join a team building a brand new Amplitude product and lead the design and development of its features for the Android platform.
Lead design, development, and support of Amplitude’s other Mobile products, including our mobile analytics SDK.
Reduce friction in the data setup experience all the way from SDK integration to building the first chart within Amplitude.
As one of the team’s polyglots, write and test code in multiple programming languages, often on the same day.
Provide technical customer support to engineers deploying our analytics SDKs in their applications.
Write developer documentation published in READMEs and our technical docs site.
Extend CI/CD to automate the build process, testing, and deployment of SDKs to their respective package managers.
Lead cross-functional collaboration with product and design teams to iterate on our products.
Lead engineering discussions and mentor others on engineering best practices.

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

Experience building SDKs or libraries for mobile platforms.
Familiarity with building apps for iOS and Android using Swift, Kotlin, React Native or Flutter.
Experience working full-stack is a big plus.
Experience working with game engines is nice to have.
Attention to detail and obsession over fit-and-finish and design perfection.
Experience shipping libraries with elegant APIs used broadly within your company or externally as OSS.

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"This role is eligible for equity, benefits and other forms of compensation.

Based on Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $154,000 - $231,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in New York City, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in New York City. New York City 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 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)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington state. Washington salary range: $154,000 - $231,000 total target cash (inclusive of bonus or commission)

Based on legislation in Washington state, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Washington only: unlimited PTO, 10 to 13 holidays annually (will vary), medical dental and vision PPO and CDHP plans. Finally, a company sponsored 401(k) retirement plan."

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