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title: 'Software Engineer, Labs at Ambrook'
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# Software Engineer, Labs at Ambrook

- **Company:** Ambrook
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-04-07
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ambrook/ff7372eb-0863-4f8c-94aa-8bee9a7c1670

## 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. About [Ambrook Labs](https://ambrook.com/labs) Ambrook Labs is a small team purpose-built for rapid experimentation on customer-facing AI applications. We prototype, ship, and learn from AI experiments that turn Ambrook's proprietary advantages into category-defining capabilities no horizontal tool can replicate. Ambrook customers span industries underserved by modern AI — the opportunity is to define what business tools look like when they're built with real operational context, data, and domain depth from the start. The team: [Jeff Anders](https://jeffanders.co) (co-founder, head of design), [Henry Bridge](https://www.linkedin.com/in/hbridge/) (tech lead), plus 2-3 new engineers (you?). Read more at [ambrook.com/labs](https://ambrook.com/labs).

## What you'll do

- Run experiments end to end in 1-2 week cycles — prototype, ship to real customers, learn, repeat
- Work directly with operators across agriculture, construction, trucking, and other industries to ground experiments in real problems
- Build the eval framework that lets the team move fast with confidence
- Share what you learn — internal demos and external write-ups are a core output, not an afterthought
- Help figure out what's worth scaling and what's not — and be right often enough that the team builds conviction about where to invest

## What you bring

- You've shipped AI/LLM-powered features to real users, not just demos or internal tools
- You're comfortable across the stack: frontend, API, prompts, evals
- You've built 0-to-1 products and are excited by ambiguity, scoping from scratch, and making strategic decisions alongside technical ones
- You have a track record of self-direction: you've consistently identified important problems and gone after them
- You write and share naturally, both internally and externally
- You have a portfolio of side projects, open source work, or the like that shows how you generate and build on ideas
- You've demonstrated curiosity about underserved industries: you've read about them, talked to people in them, built something for them, or otherwise taken real action

## Why this role

- You'll build AI for customers and industries where the gap between what exists and what's possible is enormous
- The Labs team has the buy-in and autonomy to move from idea to shipped experiment rapidly
- Direct access to real customers from day one
- Ambrook's data pipeline, domain models, and customer relationships give you a foundation for novel approaches and real-world impact
- You'll help define how the team operates, not just what it builds

Ambrook is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every qualification listed above. If you've built things you're proud of and you're excited about this problem space, we want to hear from you.

## 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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