Product Engineer II (Activation)

About The Role & Team

The Activation team at Amplitude is building a leading insights-driven activation platform that empowers businesses to unlock customer insights and make faster, smarter, and more cost-effective decisions. Our platform enables customers to proactively improve data quality, intelligently discover key audiences, and seamlessly activate data across a wide range of channels.

We are responsible for building features to help customers find the right audience to target, visualize their customer journey to plan interventions and build scalable real-time and batch data pipelines along with an ecosystem of integrations that move data into and out of Amplitude and across our partner ecosystem. Today, this platform supports over 100+ integrations and processes over 800 petabytes of data per month and it's growing rapidly.

We're looking for a Product Engineer who isn’t afraid to take on the challenges of building and evolving a highly-sophisticated, data-intensive enterprise product. As one of the core members of the engineering team, you will be responsible for building innovative interfaces and cross-cutting architectural improvements for our Activation Platform, enabling self-serving data connections, simplifying customer insights generation, and ensuring a seamlessly integrated user experience with other Amplitude products.. 

As a Product Engineer, you will: 

• Lead features, from ideation and implementation, through to launch.
• Develop new features for data connection management and customer insights discovery using TypeScript, React, GraphQL, and Tailwind CSS.
• Develop APIs and business logic in Python/Java to support product functionality.
• Integrate with backend services and improve our API infrastructure built with Python, Java, Node, GraphQL and Postgres.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product and design teams to iterate on our product.

You'll be a great addition to the team if you have:

• Passion for driving customer value,  you think about how your work delivers value to customers.
• Interest in customer interaction, iterating with customers to develop novel innovative products.
• Attention to detail and commitment to high-quality, maintainable code
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals, algorithms, and system design
• Enthusiasm for working across frontend and backend technologies to take full ownership of the problem.
• Pride yourself in your excellent attention to detail and your design and UX sensibilities.

At a minimum, you need to have:

• B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or another technical field.
• 2+ years of experience working as a Product Engineer, or a full-stack engineer with a front-end focus.
• Previous experience with one or more JavaScript application frameworks (React, Angular, Backbone, etc.)

Previous experience with backend development in Python/Java is a plus

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