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title: 'Design Systems Engineer at Ambrook'
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# Design Systems Engineer at Ambrook

- **Company:** Ambrook
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ambrook/f8115d58-6b72-4920-a489-f24e37d7fe2d

## Job description

Ambrook helps American family-run businesses become more profitable and resilient. From volatile markets to climate shifts, independent operators face mounting pressure. While sustainable investments often yield the best long-term returns, they require financial clarity and capital that fragmented legacy systems can’t provide.

We are rebuilding the financial infrastructure that real economy operators rely on. By replacing paperwork with modern tools for accounting, banking, and spending, Ambrook gives owners the data they need to prove viability to lenders and the next generation. We empower the stewards of land and labor to make confident investments in their future.

We’re a Series B startup backed by Lachy Groom, Thrive Capital, Dylan Field, Thomson Reuters Ventures, Cameron Ventures, and leaders at Notion, Gusto, and Vercel. We’re looking for team members to help us untangle the intersection of American industry, climate, and the economy.

The opportunity

You'll own the design system at Ambrook, from the components down to the frontend infrastructure underneath them. You're an engineer first: you write clean, fast TypeScript and React, you care about the architecture behind a component as much as how it looks, and you treat coding agents as part of how you work. The role sits where the design system meets the product that ranchers and farmers use every day. You'll keep both healthy as we grow. We care about your engineering judgment, your bar for craft, and your willingness to try things.

Frontend and design systems have changed dramatically over the last year, and we've changed with them. We've retooled ourselves around AI to clear out the busy work, including migrations, adoption, and the long tail of upkeep that used to eat a team's time, so engineers can spend their time on the work that actually moves the product. We're looking for someone to build alongside our tight, talented design and engineering teams https://ambrook.com/blog/company/meet-the-design-team, staying flexible as the macro shifts while raising the technical floor of everything we ship.

## What you'll own

- The design system: Build and evolve our component library, interaction patterns, and design tokens as production frontend infrastructure that holds up across web and mobile
- Migrations and adoption: Drive the system into the product. Land breaking changes, deprecate old patterns, and do the human work of getting the whole team to actually build on it
- Frontend performance: Treat bundle size, render performance, and accessibility as features, and own the tooling and guardrails that keep them from regressing
- Agentic development with craft: Write the codemods, migration scripts, and agent workflows that let the whole team move onto the system faster, without sacrificing the quality of what ships

## What we look for

- You bring deep frontend engineering chops: clean, performant TypeScript and React, with a solid grasp of data structures, async programming, and modern build and tooling workflows
- You've owned a design system or shared component library in production, and you know the hard parts: versioning, breaking changes, migrations at scale, and convincing other engineers to build on your work
- You treat frontend performance and accessibility as engineering problems. You can profile a slow render, cut a bundle down, and put guardrails in place to keep the wins
- You use coding agents as part of how you work, pointing them at migrations and adoption to move faster across a large codebase
- You have strong enough design instincts to spot when something feels off in a UI and hold a high bar, even if you spend more time in the codebase than in Figma
- You're curious about and empathetic to the domain we operate in https://ambrook.com/blog/company/designing-for-the-field
- Your past work, whether shipped systems, tooling, open source, or a portfolio, tells a clear story of your engineering skills and your craft

## About Ambrook

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ambrook is an all-in-one bookkeeping, payments, and analytics platform built for America’s family-run businesses in agriculture, construction, trucking, and other blue-collar sectors.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Mackenzie Burnett (CEO & Co-founder), Jeff Anders (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Financial services / Accounting software for real-economy industries (farming, ranching, construction, trucking, property management, services).
- **Target customers**: Independent, family-owned businesses (B2B, SMB/owner-op).
- **Mission**: “Build a more prosperous and resilient future for America’s family-run businesses.”

## Products & Services
- **Bookkeeping**: AI-powered transaction tagging, receipt scanning, and automated categorization by enterprise, project, or location. Replaces spreadsheets with live dashboards.
- **Payments (Ambrook Wallet)**: Invoicing, bill pay, mailed checks, team cards – all transactions automatically recorded in the books. Single system eliminates double-entry.
- **Analytics & Reporting**: Profitability reports per enterprise/project, ready for bankers, accountants, and partners.
- **Inventory Management**: Track inventory alongside finances.
- **Ambrook Funding Library**: Curated database of grants, loans, and programs updated regularly.
- **Ambrook Education**: Workshops, guides, and webinars on bookkeeping, tax strategy, and operations.
- **Ambrook Community**: Peer network for operators to share best practices.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: **$26.1M total funding** (Seed round Feb 2021; Series A May 2022 led by Thrive Capital, with participation from Dylan Figueroa and others).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Thrive Capital (lead Series A), Dylan Field (Figma CEO) as investor.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Over **7,000 businesses** rely on Ambrook.
  - Headcount grew **60.6% YoY** to 39 employees (LinkedIn data).
  - Offices in New York, Denver, San Francisco, plus a remote-first culture.
  - Strong online presence: 4.7 Trustpilot rating, active LinkedIn following (+128.9% yearly).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertical-specific focus**: Tailored for operators in farming, ranching, construction, and trucking – a niche often underserved by generic accounting platforms.
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines bookkeeping, payments, analytics, and inventory in one system, removing the need for multiple tools and manual reconciliation.
- **AI & automation**: Receipt scanning, auto-tagging, and smart reporting reduce manual entry and errors.
- **Trust & simplicity**: “No data sharing, no third-party marketing” and US-based support builds trust with family-run businesses.
- **Differentiator**: Payments that “record themselves” – every transaction flows into the books automatically, eliminating double-entry.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the customer base beyond 7,000 by expanding into adjacent industries (services, property management).
- Deepen the payment/“Wallet” offering to become the primary financial operating system for customers.
- Continue investing in AI and automation to reduce friction in bookkeeping and reporting.
- Grow the team (**Engineering, Design, Operations** roles open) while maintaining a remote-friendly, values-driven culture.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: “Find the positive sum,” “Communicate with real talk,” “Be proactively resourceful,” “Derisk thoughtfully.” Emphasis on curiosity, empathy, and accountability.
- **Work flexibility**: Remote-friendly with hubs in New York, Denver, and San Francisco. Team stays connected via retreats and farm visits.
- **Perks**: Cozy in-person offices, 30‑day free trial for customers, US-based support – but internally, expect a lean, high‑ownership environment.
- **Engineering culture**: Early‑stage team (39 people) with ~19% technical staff. Open roles for Software Engineer (including AI, Labs), Engineering Manager, Talent Engineer, and Design Engineer. Strong emphasis on building for real‑world users.
- **Growth opportunity**: Company is growing rapidly (60%+ headcount YoY), offering career velocity and the chance to shape product and culture.

## Sources
1. [ambrook.com](https://ambrook.com/)
2. [ambrook.com/about](https://ambrook.com/about)
3. [ambrook.com/careers](https://ambrook.com/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/ambrook](https://www.linkedin.com/company/ambrook)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/ambrook](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/ambrook)

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