Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
This Senior Software Engineer role sits at the intersection of product analytics and platform engineering, a core category in SaaS where reliability and interpretability directly shape customer decision-making. Working on a flagship analytics experience implies sustained attention to data correctness, performance, and UX tradeoffs that are common in mature, usage-driven SaaS products serving many product teams.
For long-term SaaS career development, the remit spans end-to-end delivery, from shaping product direction with PM and Design to shipping fullstack changes that customers feel. That combination tends to build durable skills in iterative product work, operating with real-world telemetry, and making pragmatic architecture choices in systems that ingest and serve high-throughput data. Exposure to scaling and performance optimization also translates well across SaaS environments where cost, latency, and reliability influence retention.
The role is best suited to an engineer who prefers ownership over narrowly scoped tickets and who can move comfortably between frontend experience and backend services. It will fit someone who enjoys translating ambiguous customer problems into shippable increments, and who is ready to contribute beyond individual output through mentorship and technical leadership in a collaborative product team setting.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About The Role & Team
We’re looking for a Fullstack Engineer to join the Core Analytics team, the group behind our flagship analytics product loved by thousands of product teams worldwide.
You’ll work with our Product Manager and Designer to define, build, and ship end-to-end features that elevate the Analytics experience. You’ll own your impact from shaping product direction to delivering performant, reliable, and delightful user experiences.
Our engineers are customer-focused and solve complex data problems to deliver a better user experience. We deliver value quickly and iteratively. If you’re passionate about building exceptional data-powered experiences that help businesses understand their customers, we’d love to meet you.
The team’s mission is to deliver a fast, intuitive, and reliable Analytics platform that empowers customers to confidently uncover insights about their products while driving infrastructure initiatives that strengthen and scale the platform.
As a Senior Engineer, you will:
- Work with Product Management and Design to generate and turn novel ideas for solving customer problems into engineering solutions
- Drive business impact through owning the end-to-end delivery of projects
- Have a strong critical thinking and problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
- Get involved in performance optimization and scaling efforts
- Drive business impact through leading the highest-leverage projects
- Have interest or experience in technical leadership of an engineering team
- Mentor and contribute to the success of other engineers on the team
You'll be a great addition to the team if you:
- 5+ years of experience building and improving robust, scalable backends and developing interactive, user-facing applications or websites.
- Understand the whole stack and flow of user-facing web applications.
- Backend experience with application backends, microservices, and supporting high-throughput ingestion systems
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving mindset with attention to detail
- Have exceptional communication skills and a proven track record of successful delivery and execution
- Can synthesize customer input and architectural knowledge to create an outsized engineering impact
- Excellent communication skills and ability to adapt to changing requirements
- Have a constant desire to learn and grow in the field of web development
- Have experience in CI/CD pipelines
- Strong practitioner of automated testing
- Have familiarity with the following: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, JavaScript, Redux, AWS
- Have interest or experience in technical leadership of an engineering team
Who We Are
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 19 quarters in a row on G2.
- 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 Data Monster, 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 Colorado law, the following details are for individuals who will work for Amplitude in Colorado. Colorado range: $165,000 - $247,000 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: $183,000 - $276,000 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: $183,000 - $276,000 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: $165,000 - $247,000 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: $165,000 - $247,000 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.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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