Software Engineer Co-Op - New York, United States - Amplify

Description

A pioneer in K-12 education since 2000, Amplify is leading the way in next-generation curriculum and assessment. Our 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 help teachers identify the targeted instruction students need to build a strong foundation in early reading and math. All of our programs provide educators with powerful tools that help them understand and respond to the needs of every student. Today, Amplify serves more than 10 million students in all 50 states. For more information, visit

Amplify is a leader in creating immersive, rigorous digital learning experiences that look great, play great, and help students expect great things of themselves. Amplify has been described as the best tech company in education, and the best education company in tech.

As a CoOp at Amplify, you will join a talented team tackling the toughest problems in education with the best ideas in technology - including user experience, APIs and services, data analysis, and deployment pipelines.

What You'll Do

• Impress the toughest customers around - students - by:
  • building engaging, quirky, fast frontends using frameworks like React
    
  • ensuring an equitable experience for students by implementing code that runs great across platforms under variable memory and network constraints
    
• Make life better for passionate teachers by:
  • improving apps reliability and uptime
    
  • monitoring apps to make sure they are available to teachers and classrooms
    
  • building well structured and documented APIs so that our apps can interoperate with ease
    
  • frequently and confidently shipping improvements from your laptop to classrooms
    
• Help school administrators build great schools by:
  • building software that respects privacy and ensures security while offering useful insights
    
  • analyzing performance and squashing tricky bugs using tools like DataDog or AWS CloudWatch
    
• Learn every day by:
  • Collaboration and having your code reviewed on a cross-functional team
    
  • participating in cross-team share-outs, brownbags, and workshop series
    
  • Writing automated tests that validate working code
    

Example Projects You Might Work On

• Crafting immersive compelling experiences for teachers and students using the latest web tools.
  
• Implementing logic that handles student work: from persistence to selecting the right activity for the right student at the right moment.
  
• Optimizing software so that it can handle hundreds of thousands of kids with stability and security in mind.
  
• Ensuring existing software continues to function well.
  
• Improving our workflows and tooling, and of course our existing customer experience.
  

Basic Requirements:

• A background in computer science fundamentals including algorithms and data structures
  
• Experience with Java, Python, or another object-oriented language and the ability to quickly learn a new language
  
• Familiarity with relational databases
  
• Familiarity with web application development
  
• Ability to work with a close-knit team and to both give and receive constructive feedback
  
• Strong communication skills
  
• An interest in the education landscape and how to improve it
  

What we offer:

This role is eligible for participation in a lucrative 401(k) plan. The annualized gross salary for this role is $62,400.

We celebratediversityand 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 adiversecandidate 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.