Design Engineer

Ambrook’s mission is to help family-run American businesses become more profitable and resilient.

Operators across American agriculture and industry face increasing pressure from record-breaking droughts, rising input costs, and unpredictable markets. The best long-term investments, like efficient irrigation and grazing rotations, support both the land and the bottom line. But even when the payoff is clear, these changes need upfront capital and financial clarity that's hard to come by.

Business owners work with fragmented records and outdated tools. They can't easily see what's working or prove viability to a lender, partner, or the next generation.

Ambrook is rebuilding the financial infrastructure that independent operators rely on.

We replace paperwork and legacy systems with modern tools for accounting, banking, invoicing and spending. Tools built for people who spend more time in the field than in the office. Our platform gives producers the financial clarity they need to make confident investments in their land, their operation, and their future.

Our customers are the backbone of the real economy. They are stewards of land, labor, and legacy. We're giving them the ability to invest in stronger, more durable businesses. When they do, they build generational resilience across America.

We started with farmers and ranchers across the country. Now we're expanding quickly to other American industries.

We're a Series A startup backed by top investors like Thrive Capital, Dylan Field, Homebrew, Designer Fund, and BoxGroup. We're looking for early team members who want to untangle the knotted intersection between American industry, climate, and the economy.

The opportunity

Ambrook is building a world-class team that values design and craft. Joining a strong founding team of designers and engineers, you’ll help drive our technical decisions and influence our product direction for years to come, with the goal of making agricultural and industrial businesses more resilient and profitable. Read here to hear more from our co-founder Dan about this role and what we’re looking for in a candidate.

​​You'll own

• Product craft: Beautiful, performant interfaces that solve real problems for agricultural operators

• Design systems: Component libraries, interaction patterns, and design tokens that enable consistent experiences

• User experience: Translating complex financial workflows into intuitive, accessible interfaces

• Technical implementation: High-quality frontend code that brings designs to life

Responsibilities

• Ship beautiful, functional experiences — Design and build user-facing features from concept to production, translating complex agricultural finance workflows into interfaces that feel natural for ranchers and farmers

• Own our design system — Build and evolve component libraries, interaction patterns, and design tokens that work seamlessly across web and mobile platforms

• Champion product craft — Establish quality standards and processes that ensure every feature we ship solves real problems elegantly

• Scale our frontend architecture — Lead improvements to design system infrastructure, development workflows, and tooling as we grow

• Collaborate across disciplines — Work with design on visual standards, product on feature requirements, engineering on technical architecture, and directly with customers on real-world usage

• Shape what we build — Influence product direction through user research insights, design explorations, and deep understanding of agricultural operations

About you

• 3+ years building high-quality web and mobile experiences

• Design system ownership: You've built or worked extensively with component libraries and understand both the technical and human challenges

• Strong design instincts: You can spot when something feels off in a UI and create high-fidelity prototypes in Figma

• Advanced frontend skills: Clean, performant code with solid grasp of data structures, async programming, and modern development workflows

• Mission-driven: Excited to solve real problems for people who work the land and help family-run businesses become more profitable and resilient

• Comfortable with ambiguity: You thrive when balancing user needs, business requirements, and technical constraints to create elegant solutions

• Collaborative by nature: Sitting at the center of design and engineering, you work well across disciplines to get things done

• Bonus: Experience at fast-moving startups, building financial products, or working with React, TypeScript, React Native, and Next.js

Our Tech Stack

• Frontend: Next.js / React application written in TypeScript

• Mobile: React Native & Expo for iOS and Android

• Infrastructure: Google Cloud Platform

• Data: Firestore & Google Cloud SQL for storage, BigQuery for analytics

• Design: Figma for design, custom component library for implementation

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.