Product Engineer, Ampersand

Salary not provided

+ Equity

React

TypeScript

GCP

Postgres

Hubspot

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

3 days a week in office

User-facing integrations for SaaS products

Open for applications

User-facing integrations for SaaS products

1-20 employees

B2BInternal toolsData Integration

Open for applications

Salary not provided

+ Equity

React

TypeScript

GCP

Postgres

Hubspot

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

3 days a week in office

1-20 employees

B2BInternal toolsData Integration

Company mission

To usher in a future where data can flow freely between SaaS applications, where a new product "just works" with a company's existing SaaS stack.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

You are an AI enthusiast - you use AI tools daily to increase your productivity, and like experimenting with the latest frameworks and models
You are a generalist engineer who enjoys jumping into all parts of the stack, and can also go deep if needed
You have programmed for long enough to not need a lot of guidance, and know how to seek the right resources for solving open-ended problems
You are action-oriented, and are excited to ship features and iterate with customers
You have worked on a production system operating at scale
You are excited to build for developers, and are ready to do what it takes to make them successful, even if it involves non-coding tasks like documentation, or hopping on a video call to help them troubleshoot
Our stack will be Go/Postgres/TypeScript/React/GCP, even if you haven't used those technologies before, you're willing to learn

What the job involves

This is a once-in-a-generation moment in time to build the connectivity infrastructure for AI, and requires passion, hard work and continuous learning. At the same time, we believe that this is a marathon, not a sprint
At Ampersand, you'll get to build a developer platform that other companies depend on for their integrations. Some of the projects that you might tackle in the first 6-12 months include:
Improving the Ampersand AI SDK and MCP server
Implementing an "AI Chat" experience in the Ampersand dashboard for developers to ask questions like, "Is customer X's HubSpot integration working right now?"
Using LLMs to auto-parse API error messages in customer workflows and remedy them
There's some grunt work involved. While we think there are lots of exciting technical challenges to be solved, there will be days when you'll be reading bad 3P API documentation or chasing down an unclear error message
You'll be expected to wear multiple hats. All engineers are involved with customer support, writing documentation, staffing conferences, etc. We'll be sharing the load across the team (including the founders!)

Our take

Company systems of record are designed to be highly configurable to suit most business needs, but this flexibility comes at a price. When building a SaaS product, it can be difficult to connect to this vital data source, requiring a huge amount of developer time to make things line up. Even then, it can be difficult to scale or change anything without a lot of work.

In contrast to the plethora of companies that solve data connectivity issues with APIs, Ampersand's solution is to offer a platform that lets engineers directly add user-facing integrations to their apps. It also bucks the low- and no-code trend, believing that control, flexibility and granularity are more important to skilled engineers than simplfication offered by competitors.

Its approach has drawn interest from investors, who have invested a significant amount in a recent seed round led by Matrix Partners. This funding will be used to round out Ampersand's founding team and to develop its platform with a view to monetisation in the near future. Ampersand's goal of replacing APIs as the connective layer between customer-facing SaaS apps and a company's system of record is ambitious, but it's off to a very strong start.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (1 round)

Apr 2023

$4.7m

SEED

Total funding: $4.7m

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Lauren Long

(Co-founder & CTO)

Before co-founding Ampersand was a Software Engineer at Shortwave and a Technical Engineer for Google. Previously co-founded Boxit.

Ayan Barua

(Co-founder)

Was VP of Engineering at G2. Before that, was Co-founder & CTO of Siftery and Credii.

Salary benchmarks

We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.

Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.

Share this job

View 1 more job at Ampersand