A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our captivating core and supplemental programs in ELA, math, and science engage all students in rigorous learning and inspire them to think deeply, creatively, and for themselves. Our formative assessment products turn data into practical instructional support to help students at every skill level build a strong foundation in early reading and math. Our programs provide teachers with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of all their students. Today, Amplify serves five million students in all 50 states.

Amplify is creating a ground-breaking digital curriculum that brings together world-class academics, engaging digital media, and data analytics to change the way teachers teach and students learn. Our digital curriculum empowers teachers to offer more personalized instruction, allowing students to become more active, engaged learners.

We are looking for a talented and passionate Senior Engineering Manager who wants to be a leader within a technology team where every engineer is responsible for the quality of our product and the happiness of our students and teachers.

What You'll do:

• Technical Leadership: Collaboratively guide teams to innovative and appropriate architectures and tech stacks.
• Technical Guidance: Foster strong technical practices (code review, architectural planning, security by design) across multiple teams
• Execution: Work with product leads to ensure teams have a high-value, high-velocity, and responsive product development lifecycle.
• Deliver: Take responsibility for successful delivery against quarterly OKRs, including leading teams in establishing best practices in estimation, requirements analysis, balancing trade offs, and executing against commitments.
• Communication and Collaboration: Work with Senior technical management, reports, Product Owners, Designers and QA to ensure smooth working relationships and the productivity that can drive.
• Strategy: Collaborate with business, product, design and tech leadership to drive business, product, and technical strategy and goals for your team.
• People management: Provide technical leadership, career development, coaching, and mentoring for engineers.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent technical experience demonstrating strong CS fundamentals.
• At least 5 years tech industry experience
• 3+ years designing and building quality internet applications that scale and perform well.
• Proven track record managing delivery of complex projects
• Proven track record as a hands-on leader whom others look to for inspiration and advice.
• Experience designing and building web services.
• Proven track record building testing culture and practices.
• Deep knowledge of Javascript, React, and Redux.
• Experience using SQL databases (e.g. Postgresql, MySQL, Oracle).
• Familiarity with agile product development methodologies.

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience with tools we use every day

• Front-end frameworks: Angular, React, the next thing that will replace them all
• Back-end frameworks: Nodejs Express, Java Dropwizard
• Tools and systems: Linux, Jenkins, Docker, AWS
• Data stores: Postgresql, Redshift, S3

• Experience in AWS toolchains and devops
• Proven passion for building and learning: open source contributions, pet projects, self-education, Stack Overflow
• Experience in education or ed-tech

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities, Females, Protected Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

This position may be funded, in whole or in part, through American Recovery & Reinvestment Act funds.

Amplify Education, Inc. is an E-Verify participant.