Backend Engineer

This is an in-person opportunity in San Francisco.

About Amber AI

We are an ambitious, talent-driven team dedicated to in-person collaboration six days a week in San Francisco.

Our mission is to build the agentic OS that powers consumer brands creating the physical products we use and love every day. AmberOS serves as a system of record and workflow engine to bring new products to market quickly and profitably. By fully productizing the COGS line, we reduce operational complexity for brands. Amber was founded by a second-time entrepreneur who grew his previous company to $80 million in revenue with 500,000 customers.

• Our mission: Remove operational complexity for brands, retailers and importers. We shrink the distance between a great idea and a finished, inbound cleared product ready to sell.
• Team: Hands-on builders who ship quickly and are passionate about the physical products in our daily lives. We move fast, own outcomes, and have fun.
• Product: An agentic operating system that powers product development, supplier collaboration, purchase orders, freight & customs, FX, and embedded payments. Our agents work 24/7 handling repetitive supply-chain tasks, supported by a robust data model and real-time collaboration.
  
  

Responsibilities

• High Ownership: Ability to design and implement scalable systems end-to-end independently. Understand and define requirements, and write clean code.
• Customers First: Engage closely with customers to understand requests, and ship solutions working closely with product and AI engs.
• Operations: Be obsessed about operations and strive to ensure that there is minimal to no downtime or impact to the customer ever.
• Bias for action: Ability to work and ship in a fast paced environment with weekly deliverables. Founder mindset to work with minimal direction.
• Be Curious: Curious to learn, work hard and possess a growth mindset.
  
  

What you bring

• BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.
• Curious, hard working, eager to learn. Excited about working in an early-stage environment.
• Tech stack: Next.js, React, Prisma, Supabase, REST, GraphQL, LLMs.
• Bonus points:
• Experience thriving in a fast-paced, hyper-growth startup environment.
• Track record building and scaling platform systems.
• Understanding of LLM models.
  

Benefits of working at Amber AI

• Competitive pay with considerable equity upside.
• Ability to do full lifecycle of product development from talking to customers, building and shipping code, support, writing blogs and evangelizing your work.
• Work with passionate and experienced people in cutting-edge applied AI systems.
• Fast pace with zero bureaucracy and a deep-seated ambition to win.
• First-hand experience in inner workings of building a world-class company with a fully transparent culture.
• Health Insurance.
• Daily lunches and dinners in the office.
• Visa Sponsorship: We welcome global talent and provide visa sponsorship to support qualified candidates.
  
  

How to Apply

Email your LinkedIn or resume plus Github to [email protected]. Briefly describe one architecture decision you’re proud of and the tradeoffs you made.