AI Engineer, Ampersand
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
User-facing integrations for SaaS products
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User-facing integrations for SaaS products
1-20 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
1-20 employees
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.
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
- This is the perfect role if you think you might start your own company one day
What the job involves
- 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!)
- Tremendous learning and growth opportunities as the company scales. You'll not only learn a lot as an engineer by having a large scope, you'll also get exposure into other aspects of the business like marketing, customer development, strategy, etc
- There's something special about building for developers - your impact is magnified because you are providing the building blocks that other products rely on
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.
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