Software Engineer

About Amplify

Amplify helps teachers bring delight and rigor to students every day. We have become a leader in K–12 literacy, biliteracy, math, and science by building inspiring teaching and learning experiences based on research. The Amplify Classroom platform combines curriculum, assessment, and supplemental learning into one coherent high-quality instructional system. A pioneer in education since 2000, Amplify has developed deep relationships in states and districts by partnering with educators to drive implementation quality and improved outcomes. Today, Amplify serves more than 18 million students and teachers across all 50 states and on six continents. For more information, visit Amplify.com.

Job Description

Our fully remote engineering team builds elegant and flexible systems that can quickly respond to design and pedagogy demands. You will work in cross-functional teams alongside product managers, designers, data scientists and education experts on a variety of impactful projects and have involvement in initiatives from ideation phases through to production release.

Examples of projects you could work on

• Providing tools for teachers and students to effectively assess a child's reading ability.
• Creating reporting on student assessments with tools and recommendations for improving outcomes
• Improving APIs to allow teacher and administrators tools to perform to the highest standards of speed and reliability

Essential Responsibilities

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Software engineer responsibilities in the Literacy Assessments team

• Build high-quality, robust, scalable software solutions that help Amplify build and maintain a best-in-class learning platform.
• Develop code across front-end and back-end components, including automated tests and related tooling.
• Reviewing code from other engineers on the team, bringing your keen eye for pragmatic and elegant solutions to challenging problems.
• Collaborate with our DevOps team to develop, ma...