Software Engineer

Summary

Join Ambrook, a Series A startup focused on making sustainability profitable for family-run businesses, as one of our first engineers. You will play a crucial role in shaping our technical direction and product development, contributing to a more sustainable and profitable agricultural sector. This position offers the opportunity to own the delivery of elegant product experiences, teach best practices, and learn the intricacies of agrifinance and climate tech. You will improve our existing full-stack architecture and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Ambrook offers competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package.

Requirements

• Experience shipping web applications
• Excited to build software that makes natural resource industries like agriculture more sustainable and profitable
• Comfortable taking on ambiguous problems and creating elegant technical solutions

Responsibilities

• Own: Delivery of elegant, performant product experiences and infrastructure
• Teach: Best practices in engineering architecture, project management, and cross-functional collaboration
• Learn: Ins and outs of building an agrifinance and climate tech company, including the nitty gritty of agricultural bookkeeping, the larger farm finance ecosystem, and natural resource management / ESG tie-ins. Android and iOS development with React Native
• Improve: Existing full-stack architecture and API, engineering tooling, and development velocity
• Learn how to use Ambrook’s tech stack to deliver a standalone feature to our customers
• Analyze Ambrook’s use of best practices and share a technical note with our team about where we have opportunities to improve
• Familiarize yourself with Ambrook’s product and our research notes and recording repository from user onboarding calls and customer discovery interviews
• Embed yourself deeply in understanding the state of farm finance, building a strong intuition about customer needs and audience segmentation
• Contribute to Engineering team meetings and review code from peers
• Participate in meetings with producers
• Collaborate with our Product team to influence prioritization of feature ideas and requests with insights from our audience
• Collaborate with other engineers as the owner for a large, full-stack feature built into our core bookkeeping product. As the engineering owner, you’ll break down your project into granular pieces and practice good project management hygiene, triaging and prioritizing new issues that come in
• Plan and execute improvements to our server infrastructure, databases, and CI/CD tooling
• Perform end-to-end data analysis, including pipeline development, transformation, and dashboarding
• Champion strong user data hygiene, operational security, and privacy practices
• Collaborate to design and execute improvements to our engineering stack, building new processes and onboarding our team to them
• Champion a culture of engineering excellence, connecting its value to the needs of our community and the broader team
• Get involved in hiring and growing the team by evaluating / interviewing candidates
• Write about your experience and how you improved Ambrook’s engineering culture and processes in a post on Ambrook Research

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in agriculture
• Experience building financial products
• Experience with Typescript, React, React Native, and/or Next.js

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Health insurance
• 401(k) with matching contribution
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible work hours and vacation time
• Work-from-home/remote office stipend
• Wellness stipend
• Professional development stipend