Frontend Engineer

​​We’re looking for someone who we can count on to…

• Own: Our team’s delivery of beautiful, performant product experiences.
• Teach: Best practices in componentization, performance, and frontend development. 
• 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 component APIs, layers of abstraction, and development velocity.

Within 1 month you’ll...

• Learn how to use Ambrook’s tech stack to deliver a standalone feature to our customers. 
• Work collaboratively with our Design team to make improvements to our cross-platform design system.
• 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 small business 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 customers.

Within 3 months you’ll...

• Collaborate with Product team to influence prioritization of feature ideas and requests with insights from our audience.
• Plan and execute improvements to our design system.
• Collaborate with other engineers as the frontend owner for a large, full-stack feature built into our core bookkeeping product.
• Own and deliver updates to our core financial product as well as Ambrook Research, and the Ambrook marketing website.
• Create guidelines for design component development that balances the needs of our Design team, GTM team, and the rest of the engineering team.

Within 6 months you’ll...

• Collaborate to design and execute improvements to our frontend stack, building new processes and onboarding our team to them.
• Champion a culture of frontend 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.

About you

• Significant experience delivering high quality, performant, web applications to production environments (likely from 4+ years of work experience).
• Advanced engineering and coding skills. Fluency with data structures and asynchronous programming.
• 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.
• Bonus: Experience at a variety of sizes of company, including fast moving startups.
• Bonus: Experience building financial products.
• Bonus: Experience with Typescript, React, React Native, and/or Next.js.

Our Tech Stack

• Next.js / React application written in Typescript
• Available on web, Android, and iOS via React Native & Expo
• Hosted on Google Cloud Platform
• Firestore & Google Cloud SQL for data storage
• BigQuery & Data Studio for data insights

Benefits

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

Our values

• Reach Understanding – We are driven by curiosity and empathy to learn about our customers, team, and world.
• Real Talk – We create space for ourselves and others to be straightforward, vulnerable, and accountable. 
• 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.