Software Engineer

About Ambio

Ambio is an agentic physical commodity trader on a mission to accelerate the transition to sustainable materials. This mission is progressing fast in our primary domain recycled plastics.

We work closely with global brands and industrial manufacturers through the full procurement cycle making sustainable material options an easy choice. With our AI-native approach and proprietary trading technology we offer the widest selection of recycled plastics on the market.

Were a Helsinki-based startup with 15 employees with offices in Helsinki Berlin and Stockholm and funding from e.g. Lifeline Ventures and Speedinvest.

More information about Ambio: looking for a full stack software engineer to join our product team and build the digital infrastructure that powers real-world trading and logistics. This role is a great fit for someone who is excited about building with AI not just integrating existing tools but designing and shipping agents and AI-powered workflows from the ground up.

Tasks

What youll do:

• Build and maintain full stack features across our React frontend and backend
• Work with our PostgreSQL database including schema design query optimization and migrations
• Deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform using Terraform
• Design and implement AI agents and AI workflows that solve real user problems
• Help shape engineering standards as we grow
• Work closely with our commercial team to define and refine our feature set

Requirements

Signs you would be a great fit for this role:

• You have experience in modern web development. We do not need you to be an expert in every technology we use but we expect strong Javascript fundamentals general familiarity with our tech stack or similar technologies is considered a big plus. Keywords: Typescript React PostgreSQL Google Cloud Platform Terraform Github Actions
• Comfortable working across the full stack from database to UI
• Genuine interest in AI-native development: LLM APIs tool use retrieval agent architectures
• You care about code quality and moving fast
• Ability to collaborate closely while taking ownership and solving problems independently

How we work:

• Every technical decision traces back to a real user problem and we hold ourselves to a high bar in every delivery that touches the customer
• We ship simple learn fast and improve continuously getting to value quickly matters more than perfecting something in a vacuum
• You own your work end-to-end from the first commit to the outcome it produces. We communicate proactively step up across role boundaries when needed and take responsibility for shared results not just individual tasks
• We take the mission seriously but we dont take ourselves too seriously. We hire for work ethic curiosity and attitude not credentials
• No title or role is more important than the work itself. We approach each other and our craft with humility empathy and a constant drive to raise the bar and improve each day

Typical recruitment process:

1. Intro: get to know each other
2. Culture interview: with the founder and your future team lead
3. Content & case interview: practical interview through examples from real work
4. Reference check
5. Closing: with your future team lead and/or one of the founders