Frontend Tech Lead San Francisco, CA

Company: Amplitude
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 24, 2025

Job Description:

Amplitude is the leading digital analytics platform that helps companies unlock the power of their products. Over 4,000 customers, including Atlassian, NBCUniversal, Under Armour, Shopify, and Jersey Mike's, 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. Amplitude is the best-in-class analytics solution for product, data, and marketing teams, ranked #1 in multiple categories in G2's Spring 2025 Report. Learn how to optimize your digital products and business atamplitude.com .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 & TeamThe Data Warehouse team is dedicated to building world-class products that help customers easily and reliably bring data from their digital ecosystems into Amplitude. We're looking for a Staff Product Engineer to join our passionate team of engineers. In this role, you will be responsible for creating best-in-class, end-to-end experiences that empower customers to do their best work.If you're enthusiastic about frontend development, have strong product thinking, and want to use your skills to help us redefine the future of product development, this could be the perfect role for you.As a Staff Engineer, you will:

• Work across our entire stack using Typescript, React + Redux, CSS Modules, GraphQL, Node, Java, Postgres, and MySQL
• Lead the design and development of projects, and participate in every step of projects, from ideation and implementation, through to testing, QA, and launch.
• Identify opportunities to improve Amplitude based on research, data, creativity, and user feedback
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with product and design teams to iterate on our products
• Contribute to the technical direction of the team.
• Mentor other engineers in best practices, training them to have an outsized impact on the codebase.You'll be a great addition to the team if you:
  • Have a great understanding of current and emerging trends in web application development
  • Have a bias for action. You'd rather implement, learn from results, and iterate quickly than spend a lot of time tweaking and perfecting things before launching to end users.
  • Enjoy working closely with Design and Product Management to solve real customer pain points.
  • Strong practitioner of automated testing.
  • Have previous experience on data connection team
  • Have previous experience on data warehouses(snowflake, databricks, bigquery) and cloud storages(aws s3, gcp cloud storage, azure blob storage)At a minimum, you need to have:
    • 7+ years industrial experience
    • Expertise in React, Redux and Node. Familiarity with Java.
    • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving mindset with attention to detail.Who We AreThe 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)
      • We're focused on growth. Check us out in Deloitte's 2023 Technology Fast 500
      • 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 the datamonster, 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.#LI-JJ1#LI-Hybrid"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: $185,000 - $278,000 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: $204,000 - $307,000 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: $204,000 - $307,000 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: $185,000 - $278,000 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: $185,000 - $278,000 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."Staying Safe - Protect Yourself From Recruitment Fraud
        We are aware of individuals and entities fraudulently representing themselves as Amplitude recruiters and/or hiring managers. Amplitude will never ask for financial information or payment, or for personal information such as bank account number or social security number during the job application or interview process. Any emails from the Amplitude recruiting team will come from an @amplitude.com email address. You can learn more about how to protect yourself from these types of fraud by referring tothis article . Please exercise caution and cease communications if something feels suspicious about your interactions.Create a Job AlertInterested in building your career at Amplitude ? Get future opportunities sent straight to your email.Accepted file types: pdf, doc, docx, txt, rtfLinkedIn ProfileThis is a hybrid role out of our San Francisco office with the expectation of coming in 2 days a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays). Are you able to come into our office regularly? * Select...If you are currently not able to come into our SF office 2x a week, are you willing to relocate? * Select...Will you now or in the future require sponsorship to work in the U.S.? * Select...Demographic Questions - United StatesTo help hold ourselves accountable to our diversity and inclusion objectives, and for government reporting purposes, please take a few moments to complete the below self-identification survey. Completion of the form is entirely voluntary. Whatever your decision, it will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter. Any information that you do provide will be recorded and maintained in a confidential file.
        
        Why is Amplitude collecting demographic data? What is Amplitude trying to achieve by collecting this data?Collecting demographic data is part of our commitment to inclusivity and fairness in the hiring process. Amplitude has made a commitment that all candidates experience a fair and equitable hiring process. As a data-driven company, we believe you can't improve something if you can't measure it. We are implementing methods to measure fairness in the Amplitude hiring process, and we need demographic data from applicants to achieve these goals.As set forth in Amplitude's Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.How do you know if you have a disability?You are considered to have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment or medical condition that substantially limits a major life activity, or if you have a history or record of such an impairment or medical condition.How do you know if you have protected veteran status?If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection. Classification of protected categories is as follows:A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.
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