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Amplitude is a leading AI-first digital analytics platform serving over 4,700 customers including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUnival, and Square. The UI Foundation team owns the frontend infrastructure that powers product engineering across the organization—architecture, performance, developer experience, tooling, and build systems.
You will drive architectural decisions for Amplitude's frontend platform and lead the build-out of the "software factory," a set of autonomous AI-agent-driven engineering workflows designed to increase engineering velocity organization-wide. This is a high-leverage role with significant technical autonomy; you'll set direction for a foundational team rather than execute a pre-written roadmap.
Key responsibilities include:
- Frontend Architecture: Own and evolve architectural foundations including module boundaries, micro-frontend patterns, shared component/design-system infrastructure, and state management strategy.
- Application Performance: Diagnose and fix systemic performance issues (bundle size, load time, runtime performance, rendering bottlenecks); establish performance budgets and guardrails that scale across teams.
- Developer Experience & Tooling: Build and maintain build systems, local dev environments, CI/CD pipelines, linting/codegen, and internal tooling that other engineers depend on daily.
- Software Factory / Agentic Workflows: Continuously identify engineering workflow bottlenecks and build AI-agent-driven automation to remove them. For example, once code and PR generation stopped being the constraint, the focus shifted to validation automation.
- Technical Leadership: Set technical direction and standards for the frontend organization; mentor senior/staff-track engineers; review architecture proposals from other teams touching shared frontend infrastructure.
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Work closely with product engineering teams, design systems, and platform/infra teams to ensure foundational investments solve real product-team pain points.
Required qualifications:
- Real-world software engineering experience with a track record operating at Staff level or equivalent scope/impact.
- Deep expertise in modern frontend architecture (React or equivalent component frameworks) combined with strong infrastructure/systems engineering instincts.
- Demonstrated experience improving frontend application performance at scale (bundle optimization, rendering performance, load-time metrics).
- Experience designing and shipping internal developer tooling or platform infrastructure that measurably improved developer velocity.
- Hands-on experience with AI-agent-driven or LLM-powered engineering workflows (agentic coding tools, autonomous pipelines, AI-assisted codegen/migration).
- Strong technical judgment and ability to drive consensus on ambiguous, cross-cutting architectural decisions.
- Excellent written and spoken communication skills with ability to influence through technical credibility.
