Application Guide
How to Apply for Software Engineer, Growth
at Ambrook
🏢 About Ambrook
Ambrook uniquely focuses on helping American family-run businesses become more profitable and resilient through technology solutions, blending mission-driven work with practical business impact. Their remote-first culture allows engineers to contribute directly to agricultural and small business sustainability, offering meaningful work beyond typical tech roles.
About This Role
As a Software Engineer, Growth at Ambrook, you'll design and implement experiments across the customer funnel (acquisition, activation, retention) to directly impact business metrics. You'll build data instrumentation, dashboards, and GTM systems that enable rapid, data-informed decisions to optimize conversion funnels and multiply the commercial team's effectiveness.
💡 A Day in the Life
A typical day involves collaborating with marketing and sales teams to design new growth experiments, implementing A/B tests in TypeScript/React, analyzing SQL data to measure experiment impact, and building dashboards that help the commercial team make faster, data-informed decisions about funnel optimization.
🚀 Application Tools
🎯 Who Ambrook Is Looking For
- Has 3+ years experience shipping frontend experiments quickly using TypeScript and React, with proven impact on growth or product metrics
- Possesses strong SQL and analytics skills to build dashboards and make data-informed decisions without perfect information
- Is comfortable collaborating cross-functionally with marketing, sales, and operations teams in a remote environment
- Demonstrates experience optimizing conversion funnels from acquisition through activation with measurable results
📝 Tips for Applying to Ambrook
Highlight specific growth experiments you've designed/shipped in TypeScript/React with measurable impact (e.g., 'Increased activation rate by X% through Y experiment')
Showcase SQL and analytics projects where you built dashboards or instrumentation that enabled data-driven decisions
Demonstrate cross-functional collaboration experience with marketing/sales teams in remote settings
Research Ambrook's target customers (American family-run businesses) and suggest one growth experiment idea relevant to their mission
Quantify your impact using metrics like conversion rates, retention improvements, or commercial team efficiency gains
✉️ What to Emphasize in Your Cover Letter
['Your experience designing and shipping growth experiments with TypeScript/React that moved business metrics', 'Examples of building data instrumentation/dashboards that enabled fast, informed decisions', "How you've worked cross-functionally with non-technical teams (marketing/sales) to ship solutions", "Why Ambrook's mission to help family-run businesses resonates with you personally or professionally"]
Generate Cover Letter →🔍 Research Before Applying
To stand out, make sure you've researched:
- → Explore Ambrook's product offerings and understand their target customer (American family-run businesses)
- → Research challenges facing small/family-run agricultural businesses in the US today
- → Review any available case studies or testimonials from Ambrook customers
- → Understand the competitive landscape of agricultural/farm management software
💬 Prepare for These Interview Topics
Based on this role, you may be asked about:
⚠️ Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Focusing only on backend or infrastructure experience without showcasing frontend growth experimentation skills
- Presenting generic software projects without demonstrating measurable impact on business metrics
- Showing discomfort with ambiguity or inability to work cross-functionally with non-technical teams
📅 Application Timeline
This position is open until filled. However, we recommend applying as soon as possible as roles at mission-driven organizations tend to fill quickly.
Typical hiring timeline:
Application Review
1-2 weeks
Initial Screening
Phone call or written assessment
Interviews
1-2 rounds, usually virtual
Offer
Congratulations!