Interaction Developer, Computation Layer Specialist

About Amplify

Amplify helps teachers bring delight and rigor to students every day. We have become a leader in K-12 literacy, biliteracy, math, and science by building inspiring teaching and learning experiences based on research. The Amplify Classroom platform combines curriculum, assessment, and supplemental learning into one coherent high-quality instructional system. A pioneer in education since 2000, Amplify has developed deep relationships in states and districts by partnering with educators to drive implementation quality and improved outcomes. Today, Amplify serves more than 18 million students and teachers across all 50 states and on six continents. For more information, visit Amplify.com.

Job Description:

The Interaction Developer, Computation Layer Specialist, is a highly technical, collaborative, and creative role. CL specialists work closely with content experts, designers, graph specialists, editors, and others to then bring ideas to life by writing the CL code that ties an activity together. CL specialists must have a strong understanding of interaction design that is delightful and engaging to students and must be able to solve complex problems in order to develop these interactions. They understand that the hard work of creating delightful K-12 interactions is challenging and requires passion, an open mind, and recognition of the talent in others. They collaborate with skill and humility.

This is a contract role that is expected to end on 12/31/2026.

Job Responsibilities:

• Supporting Lesson Development. Work with lesson developers and graph specialists to apply medium to high complexity scripting to interactions. Additionally, brainstorm ideas and work on prototypes for new interactions. A CL specialist will work with graph specialists simultaneously, as needed.

• Identify bugs, edge cases, and performance issues in activities and rectify them.

• Internally referred to as "tune-ups", CL specialists review all of the scripting in an activity at the end of the development step. They optimize scripts and test for performance related to:

  • Correctness

  • Error messaging and warnings

  • Teacher dashboards

  • Performance

  • Student experience

• Understand and apply small additions to the expression list of the Desmos graphing calculator whenever a complex interaction requires the capabilities of both graph and CL.

• Develop interactions that require extensive CL programming.

• Applying accessibility features to digital curriculum materials - Custom screen reader narrations are applied to every one of our graph displays and are controlled by CL. CL specialists author the narrations and script their playback.

• Participate in cross-functional ideation sessions with other members of your project's team

• Offer feedback in written form and also via video chat because conversation is a natural way humans think together.

• Receive, synthesize, and strategically implement feedback from other team members to improve and polish your interactions.

• Support and be supported by the rest of the team throughout your tenure at Amplify.

• Learn about our philosophies for technology, design, pedagogy, accessibility, and equity.

• Join other CL specialists in steadily leveling up the team's skills by sharing best practices, discussing challenging problems, exploring new tools, and reviewing interactions in existing lessons.

• Explore the boundaries of what's possible with our technology and offer feedback to the product and engineering teams to help drive future development of the tools we use to build our product.

• Identify ways that our approach to equity (see resources below) can further inform our work, in terms of the products we make, the processes we use to make them, and the ways we interact with our teammates.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

• 3+ years of experience teaching in K-12 classrooms

• Basic proficiency with Computation Layer, including an understanding of sinks, sources, and conditional logic, the ability to connect student inputs with other components, and an understanding of the limitations of Computation Layer

• Excellent problem solving skills

• Alignment to team and company values around technology, design, pedagogy

• Shared commitment to team efforts around accessibility and equity work

• 5+ years of experience teaching Math in K-12 classrooms (preferred)

• High proficiency in Computation Layer (preferred)

Amplify is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Amplify makes employment decisions based on qualifications and merit, and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic or status.

Amplify is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans. If you have a disability and need an accommodation in connection with the application or hiring process, please email hiringaccommodations@amplify.com.

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