Senior Backend Engineer

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - San Francisco, CA

Publishing Industries

About the position

As a member of the Data Management team, you will own features around different aspects of customers' data including planning and instrumentation, discoverability and usage, clean up, enrichment, monitoring, and privacy/access. Amplitude does this by providing an expansive set of data tools, providing timely recommendations for keeping data clean using our AI Data Assistant, and automating these data governance jobs for customers. The team is fast moving and you will be expected to iterate quickly and own, drive and achieve alignment on a variety of projects ranging from new product features to best practices and scalability of our codebase & infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Drive business impact through owning end-to-end delivery of projects
• Operate with a focus on rapid but sustainable delivery through proper sequencing and experimentation
• Advocate for the right priorities and communicate effectively with engineering leadership
• Contribute to definition of SLAs and upholding operational excellence for applications and services that power the data management experience
• Contribute to the technical direction of the team, product, and systems
• Get involved in performance optimization and scaling efforts
• Work with Product Management and Design to generate and turn novel ideas for solving customer problems into engineering solutions
• Drive engineering discussions and engineering best practices
• Mentor and contribute to the success of other engineers on the team

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience developing and improving on robust, scalable backends for user-facing applications
• Strong backend experience with application backends, microservices, supporting high throughput ingestion systems, optimizing caching that balances speed and correctness
• Understand the full stack and flow of user-facing web applications - frontend experience is a plus
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
• Can synthesize customer input and architectural knowledge to create outsized engineering impact
• Excellent communication skills and ability to adapt to changing requirements
• Constant desire to learn and grow in the field of web development
• Have experience with defining, managing and scaling AWS solutions via infrastructure as code tools
• Have experience managing CI/CD pipelines
• Strong practitioner of automated testing
• Have familiarity with the following: (Javascript, Typescript, Node.js, Python)
• Have interest or experience in technical leadership of an engineering team

Benefits

• 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)