Ascend is hiring a
Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Ascend, a fast-growing SaaS company that helps mid-market and large enterprise customers automate accounts payable processing through text extraction, machine learning, and powerful integration into their financial systems. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will lead the creation of innovative software solutions, design, build, and improve technology to stay competitive in a tough market.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or demonstrable work experience (evidence will be required)
• 5+ years of professional software development experience: This includes hands-on experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying software
• Evidence of increasing responsibilities in current or previous roles

Responsibilities

• Coding and Development: Writing, reviewing, and optimizing code for complex features or systems
• Code Reviews: Reviewing code written by peers to ensure code quality, adherence to standards, and best practices. Provide constructive feedback and mentorship during the review process
• Design and Architecture: Designing software systems or components, making architectural decisions, and ensuring scalability, performance, and maintainability
• Mentoring and Coaching: Guiding junior engineers and peers, helping them grow technically, and providing advice on solving technical challenges
• Collaboration: Working closely with cross-functional teams to understand requirements, clarify technical details, and ensure smooth development workflows
• Technical Planning: Contributing to sprint planning, estimating tasks, defining technical roadmaps, and identifying risks or dependencies. Help in setting realistic goals and timelines for projects
• Documentation: Creating and maintaining documentation for codebases, systems, APIs, and architectural decisions to ensure knowledge sharing and onboarding for new team members
• Technical Leadership: Driving the team’s technical direction, setting coding standards, and championing best practices. They may also lead projects, technical initiatives, or process improvements

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care benefits (100% covered for employees, 50% for dependents)
• Generous retirement plan match
• Annual Lifelong Learning Allowance to use towards learning opportunities of your choice (cooking lessons, dance lessons, language lessons, etc.)
• Flexible time off
• 10 paid holidays
• Flex Fridays during the summer and one week off between Christmas and New Year’s