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title: 'Engineering Manager at Ampersand'
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# Engineering Manager at Ampersand

- **Company:** Ampersand
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-06-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ampersand/80b2b99c-089f-48ce-840f-5fd6e5bb0896

## Job description

## OUR MISSION

At Ampersand, we are building scalable integration infrastructure that delivers real-time context to AI agents in seconds. Our declarative platform, 150+ open-source connectors, and embeddable UI components give developers the building blocks they need to ship deep, bidirectional integrations.

We power cutting-edge AI companies like 11x, Orb, Square, and Crunchbase. Almost every engineering team that has evaluated us against other solutions has chosen to use Ampersand. As our product and brand evolve, we're looking for great people to join our experienced team of former Firebase, AWS, Meta and Square engineers and operators.

## ABOUT US

Ampersand was founded in 2022 by Ayan Barua and Lauren Long — two engineers and repeat founders with a rare combination of developer tools and SaaS experience. You can learn more about our full team here https://www.withampersand.com/about.

We've raised Series A funding from top-tier investors known for their early-stage bets on generational companies like Anthropic, Apple, Twilio, Supabase, and Vercel.

Together, we believe:

- This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to build the connectivity infrastructure for AI. Seizing this moment requires passion, hard work, and continuous learning. At the same time, this is a marathon, not a sprint.
- Velocity comes from great strategic decisions, not doing the 99 things you don't have to do.
- In five core values that shape how we work every day: Craft, Customer Empathy, Ownership Mindset, Velocity, and Humility.

## THE ROLE

We're looking for an inaugural Engineering Manager to join a fast-growing AI infrastructure company at a pivotal moment. You'll work directly with the founders and a small, high-retention engineering team, including people who came up through Google, Meta, Cruise, and AWS and have chosen to stay. The culture here is intentional: high craft, high trust, and high ownership. Your job is to protect that while scaling it.

This is a hands-on role. You'll be close to the technical work, close to the people doing it, and close to the decisions that shape how the team grows. You will report directly to the co-founder and CTO, and this position has the opportunity to grow into a Director or VP of Engineering role down the road.

## WHAT YOU’LL OWN

- Engineering Leadership — Mentor and grow a high-performing team across full-stack, customer, and forward-deployed engineering. Run regular 1:1s, give clear feedback, and build the conditions where engineers do their best work and stay.
- Team Scaling — Own onboarding for new engineers so they ramp quickly and become productive. Partner with founders on hiring and career development as the org grows beyond its founding core.
- Technical Execution — Spend at least 20% of your time doing IC work — staying close to the codebase and tooling. Drive project management for customer deliverables, especially work that spans multiple engineers or product areas.
- Engineering Acceleration — Create the environment and infrastructure for engineers to ship fast: code maintainability, internal documentation, development workflows, QA tools and automation. Lead by example on AI-accelerated development — advocate for using AI to improve velocity while maintaining reliability and quality.
- Security & Compliance — Own security and compliance alongside our Founding Operations Lead, including SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and GDPR.
- Distributed Collaboration — Manage project-based contract engineers and globally distributed connector contributors.

## WHAT YOU’LL BRING

- Significant software engineering experience, including 2+ years leading engineering teams in a startup or high-growth environment (even if you didn’t hold a formal Manager title)
- You've led teams through complex technical initiatives and are excited to do it again
- Strong technical judgment — you can go deep on architecture and system design when it matters
- You build engineering culture and systems: ownership, craft, and accountability are things you've actually installed somewhere before
- Excellent written communication; the team is async-first and decisions travel in writing
- You have directly interfaced with customers before, and enjoy having close lines of communication with the people you build for
- Experience with Go, TypeScript, React, or similar stacks is a plus
- Background in developer tools, APIs, infrastructure platforms, or AI-native products is preferred

## THE PERKS

- Competitive salary and equity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Free lunch on in-office days (Mon/Tue/Thu)
- 401(k) with company match, commuter benefits, HSA
- Up to 4 weeks PTO
- Team socials and retreats

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## About Ampersand

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ampersand provides a declarative developer platform for building native, bi-directional product integrations with customers’ CRM and GTM applications.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Ayan Barua (Co-founder, CEO) and Lauren Long (Co-founder, CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: B2B SaaS developer tools, infrastructure for integrations
- **Target customers**: Product and engineering teams at B2B SaaS companies (especially those building AI agents or platforms that need to sync with customer systems of record)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: Enabling B2B AI Agents to sync with their users’ System of Records for real-time context (from LinkedIn)

## Products & Services
- **Ampersand Platform**: A declarative framework that lets developers define integrations in a manifest file (`amp.yaml`), covering reads, writes, and event subscriptions. Includes a managed server that handles auth, retries, cost/ quota management, and a set of embeddable UI components for customer configuration.
- **Open Connectors Library**: An open-source library of pre-built connectors for popular SaaS tools (Salesforce, HubSpot, Marketo, Dynamics, and hundreds more). Developers can contribute or request new connectors.
- **Proxy API**: Authenticated passthrough requests for custom or unsupported objects/fields.
- **AI SDK**: Official SDK to enable AI agents to read/write customer data in real time.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $4.7M (Seed round, April 2023); estimated annual revenue of $2.4M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Matrix Partners (lead), basecase capital, Flex Capital, Blue Moon VC
- **Growth Signals**: +14.3% YoY employee growth (13 employees); expanding into AI agent use case; active GitHub repositories with rising stars; strong employer rating (5.0/5.0 on LinkedIn)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Open-source first**: An open connectors library that gives developers full control and extensibility, differentiating from closed “unified API” platforms.
- **Declarative and version-controllable**: Integrations are defined in code (YAML), composable, and fit into existing CI/CD pipelines – avoiding drag-and-drop editors that are hard to scale.
- **Bi-directional and customer-configurable**: Supports both read and write, plus real-time event subscriptions, with dynamic field mapping for enterprise customers.
- **Built for product use**: The platform is designed to be exposed directly to end users through embeddable UI components, reducing the engineering burden of building integration management interfaces.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Deepening support for AI agents by enabling real-time sync with systems of record; expanding the connector library (recently added Billing, new integrations); maintaining a lean, highly technical team.
- **Direction for growth**: Become the standard integration layer for B2B SaaS products, especially those incorporating agentic AI. Continued investment in developer experience and open-source community.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: Rated 5.0/5.0 on LinkedIn (1 review) with perfect scores for Work-Life, Compensation, and Culture. Described as a small, fast-moving team where engineers have high ownership.
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: HQ in San Francisco, with team members in Nepal and Canada, suggesting a remote-friendly or distributed hybrid setup.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Employees come from top tech companies (Square, Amazon, Meta). Tech stack includes TypeScript, Go, React, Terraform. Emphasis on open-source contributions and developer-facing products. The team is small (13 people), offering significant impact and visibility.

## Sources
1. [withampersand.com](https://www.withampersand.com/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/withampersand)
3. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/ampersand-4)
4. [docs.withampersand.com](https://docs.withampersand.com/overview)
5. [github.com](https://github.com/amp-labs)

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