Software Engineering Intern
Ambrook
Software Engineering
New York, NY, USA
Posted on Dec 6, 2024
About Ambrook
Ambrook's mission is to make sustainability profitable for family-run businesses.
In the face of historic heat waves, drought, flooding, supply chain disruptions, water shortages, and pollution, climate impacts are intensifying across industrial America: from farmers facing crop losses, to truckers navigating fuel volatility, to contractors managing material shortages. Evidence shows sustainable practice upgrades deliver financial returns – from water-efficient irrigation to fuel-efficient fleets – but these changes require significant upfront capital and a clear proof of return-on-investment to owner-operators facing tight cashflows and razor-thin margins already. With data scattered across paper records and outdated systems, operators struggle to forecast whether a practice change will improve their bottom line – let alone prove business health to lenders and other funders.
Ambrook is solving this chicken-and-egg problem by re-architecting the financial data layer of America's independent businesses. We're replacing unruly paperwork and expensive, archaic tools with an affordable accounting, banking and payments platform that helps operators understand their numbers and access capital for sustainable transitions.
Ambrook customers are our economy’s historic backbone and a manifestation of the American Dream. Done right, both financial and environmental sustainability enables these entities to stay independent and resilient in the face of climate-driven volatility.
We’re a Series A startup backed by top investors (Thrive Capital, Homebrew, Designer Fund, BoxGroup, and more) and are looking for early team members who are looking to untangle the knotted intersection between American industry and climate.
Learn more about our mission and what it’s like to work with us.
As one of our first engineering interns, you'll work as a valued member of our team building features that directly impact farmers across America. This is an exciting opportunity to gain real-world development experience while contributing to sustainable agriculture, with mentorship from experienced engineers who are invested in your growth.
We’re looking for someone who we can count on to…
- Own: Build and ship real product features that customers use, while helping improve our infrastructure alongside experienced engineers.
- Learn: Gain experience in engineering best practices, agile development, and working across teams while discovering how agritech and climate solutions help farmers succeed.
- Grow: Understand the basics of agricultural finance, farm operations, and sustainability practices through hands-on project work.
- Contribute: Help identify ways to improve our development process and codebase while learning full-stack development.
Within the first few weeks you’ll
- Learn how to use Ambrook’s tech stack to deliver a standalone feature to our customers
- Contribute to Engineering team meetings and review code from peers.
- Analyze Ambrook’s use of best practices and share a technical note with our team about where we have opportunities to improve.
By the end of your internship you’ll…
- Collaborate with the team as the owner for a full-stack feature built into our core 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.
- Collaborate with our Product team to influence prioritization of feature ideas and requests with insights from our audience.
- Embed yourself deeply in understanding the state of farm finance, building a strong intuition about customer needs and audience segmentation.
About you
- Currently pursuing B.S. (or higher) in Computer Science or a related field. Expected graduation: 2025-2026
- Available full-time for 12-16 weeks between May - December 2025
- 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
- Exhibits strong computer science fundamentals and an eagerness to learn
- Bonus: Experience with Typescript, React, React Native, and/or Next.js.
- Bonus: Track record of building and shipping complex software projects
- Bonus: Experience in agriculture
Our tech stack
- Next.js / React application written in Typescript
- Hosted on Google CloudFirestore & CloudSQL for data storage
- BigQuery & Data Studio for data insights
What makes this internship special
- Make a real difference: Build features that help farmers adopt sustainable practices and grow their businesses
- Experience life at a high growth startup: see the complete product development cycle, from design to deployment in a fast-paced environment
- Get personalized mentorship: Work directly with senior engineers who are invested in your growth
- Join a mission-driven team: Experience startup culture while helping build the future of sustainable agriculture
- Work closely with customers: Your work will help real farms and agribusinesses across America succeed - and you'll get to meet some of them
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.
The hourly rate for this internship is $40 USD + housing stipend.
Ambrook is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building diversity and inclusion into our core company culture.