Frontend Tech Lead New San Francisco, CA

Amplitude; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 204,000 - 307,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Staff Product Engineer, where you'll lead the development of innovative data solutions. This role offers the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies like React and Node, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance user experiences. Your contributions will directly impact customers' ability to harness data effectively, driving their success in the digital landscape. With a commitment to diversity and inclusion, this dynamic environment fosters growth and innovation, making it the perfect place to advance your career and make a difference.

Benefits

100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible time off and paid holidays

Generous stipends for wellness and home office equipment

Parental leave and fertility benefits

Mental health and wellness support

Mentorship programs and management training

Charitable giving grant and volunteer time off

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in web application development.
• Expertise in React, Redux, and Node, with familiarity in Java.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop projects from ideation to launch.
• Collaborate with product and design teams to enhance products.
• Mentor engineers on best practices and codebase impact.

Skills

React

Redux

Node

Typescript

GraphQL

Problem-solving

Automated Testing

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Postgres

MySQL

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

AWS S3

GCP Cloud Storage

Azure Blob Storage

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 & Team

The 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 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)
• 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.

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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."

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