Software Engineer

About the role

Ascend is seeking a Software Engineer to join our team on-site in San Francisco. The role involves expanding our core product by solving complex technical challenges using Ruby, interfacing directly with customers, and developing new product features, dashboards, and checkout processes.

Responsibilities

• In your first 30 days: Understand Ascend's platform, product, and customer workflows; collaborate with team members and engage with customers; get up to speed on prompt engineering and data extraction work; contribute to user-facing projects; partner with product managers and designers to solve customer challenges directly.
• In your first 60 days: Own prompt logic for a slice of the product; track extraction accuracy and dig into trends when things go wrong; support new customer and organization onboarding through internal tooling improvements; build intuitive UIs to power financial operations; maintain high product quality through proactive monitoring and continuous improvements.
• In your first 90 days and beyond: Collaborate with customers to translate their needs into scalable solutions for the multi-trillion-dollar insurance industry; build reusable playbooks and prompt strategies that make future automation easier; automate back-office tasks with AI, reducing time and improving accuracy for accounting teams; help shape technical architecture and processes as the platform scales; mentor engineers through thoughtful code reviews and technical guidance.

Requirements

• 1-3 years of relevant experience
• Experience working at a growth-stage startup
• Experience with relational databases
• Experience building and scaling consumer products
• A strong desire to learn new skills and solve business problems

Nice to Have

• Familiarity or interest in learning Ruby on Rails and Next.js
• Familiarity with building external APIs and integrations with platforms such as Salesforce
• Experience in building payment, checkout, or insurance products

Benefits

• 100% health premiums covered for you and your dependents
• 401k with employer matching options
• A fast growing team with an emphasis on promoting from within
• 80% of all hires in the last 12 months have already been promoted!
• Unlimited PTO
• Company paid commuter benefits
• Parental and family leave
• Lunch everyday
• Dog-friendly office!

Pay

Base Salary Range: $140,000–$175,000

Schedule

All roles at Ascend are 5 days a week onsite at our beautiful office in SoMa!