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

- **Company:** Ambrook
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ambrook/fbee6c24-b27b-438f-bacb-b6739ed72495

## 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

Ambrook's platform engineers build the foundational systems that let the rest of the company build Ambrook better. This is a broad mandate: you'll work across product infrastructure, including our PostgreSQL databases and GCP environment, and company infrastructure, including internal tooling, data platforms, and the systems that power internal AI workflows. Most of our stack is TypeScript, with some GCP scripting you'll pick up on the job.

This role combines strong infrastructure judgment with a product mindset. You'll learn from the engineers and non-engineering teams who depend on the platform, iterate quickly for them, and defend the quality, security, and scalability standards that keep Ambrook dependable as we grow.

You'll also help build the infrastructure behind Ambrook's agentic systems. The focus isn't on building individual agents: it's on creating the shared frameworks, evals, loops, harnesses, sandboxes, and interfaces that let internal teams and customer-facing product teams build and operate agents with confidence. We're working toward a world where any team can request an agent, deploy it to the cloud, run evals, and see results on a dashboard. Your work will improve the experience of every employee and expand what the whole company can ship.

## WITHIN 1 MONTH YOU'LL…

- Build a working mental model of Ambrook's product and company infrastructure, including PostgreSQL, GCP, data systems, developer tooling, security foundations, and emerging agent infrastructure.
- Develop relationships with engineering and non-engineering stakeholders to understand how they use the platform and where it creates friction.
- Ship a meaningful infrastructure improvement to production that improves the codebase, developer experience, or internal tooling.
- Identify and prioritize platform opportunities based on conversations with the teams who depend on these systems.

## WITHIN 3 MONTHS YOU'LL…

- Own a platform project from discovery through production rollout that improves developer velocity, reliability, or scalability across the codebase.
- Plan and execute a production database or GCP change with safe migration, validation, observability, and rollback practices.
- Ship a useful slice of Ambrook's internal agent infrastructure, such as an interface for configuring agents, an evaluation system, or a harness for running agent loops.
- Establish a tight feedback loop with internal platform customers and use it to improve what you build.

## WITHIN 6 MONTHS YOU'LL…

- Expand shared agent infrastructure that supports both internal workflows and customer-facing agentic features, including reusable evals, harnesses, sandboxes, and operational tooling.
- Drive a platform roadmap informed by internal customer needs, codebase-wide opportunities, and Ambrook's standards for quality, security, and scalability.
- Deliver a substantial improvement to Ambrook's database, cloud, data, or developer infrastructure and help the broader engineering team adopt it.
- Raise the standard for infrastructure changes through clear design, careful migration planning, and production ownership.

## About you

- You have built and operated production platform or infrastructure systems, with hands-on experience in PostgreSQL and GCP.
- You have planned and run migrations at scale, including validation, observability, and rollback strategies that protect production systems and customer data.
- You enjoy platform work and look for changes that improve the whole codebase, developer experience, or tooling rather than a single feature.
- You treat engineers and non-engineering teams as platform customers. You learn how they work, build with empathy, and iterate from real feedback.
- You can move quickly while defending the quality and scalability standards that shared infrastructure requires.
- You are comfortable building the interfaces and supporting product surfaces that make infrastructure useful to internal teams.
- You are security-minded and consider access, data handling, failure modes, and operational risk as part of ordinary engineering work.
- Bonus: You have built infrastructure for agentic systems, such as evals, agent loops, harnesses, or sandboxes, rather than only building individual agents.
- Bonus: Experience working directly on application security or infrastructure security.
- Bonus: Experience building financial products or systems where auditability and data integrity matter.

## Our values

- Real Talk – We create space for ourselves and others to be straightforward, vulnerable, and accountable.
- Reach Understanding – We are driven by curiosity and empathy to learn about our customers, team, and world.
- Be Proactively Resourceful – We are internally motivated and externally empowered to identify opportunities and solve problems.
- Derisk Thoughtfully – We lean into the biggest risks we face as a company and put in the work to address them systematically.
- Find the Positive-Sum – We believe in creating incentive structures that align the needs of our company, our customers, and our planet.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary
- Health insurance
- 401(k) with matching contribution
- Flexible vacation time
- Flexible work hours
- Work-from-home/remote office stipend, or desk at Ambrook’s NYC office or Denver office
- Wellness stipend
- Professional development stipend

## Our values

- Real Talk – We create space for ourselves and others to be straightforward, vulnerable, and accountable.
- Reach Understanding – We are driven by curiosity and empathy to learn about our customers, team, and world.
- Be Proactively Resourceful – We are internally motivated and externally empowered to identify opportunities and solve problems.
- Derisk Thoughtfully – We lean into the biggest risks we face as a company and put in the work to address them systematically.
- Find the Positive-Sum – We believe in creating incentive structures that align the needs of our company, our customers, and our planet.

## 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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