[2] Amoako-Atta was employed by the Apam Court in Obuasi as a Registrar-cum-Bailiff in 1932 after undergoing some preliminary training.
A year later, he joined the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation at Obuasi as a time keeper.
[3] After about a year of service at the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, he joined the Dunkwa Agricultural department as a shorthand typist and a year later he was employed by the Breman Gold Dredging Company at Ankobra to work as a shorthand typist and accountant.
Amoako-Atta was elected into the Legislative Assembly in June 1954 as the representative of the Obuasi electoral area.
In parliament, he remained a back bencher until 1956 when he was appointed Ministerial Secretary (Deputy Minister) to the Ministry of Communications and Transport.