Ascend

Software Engineer

Ascend
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1 month ago
San Francisco, CA, USAEntry Level / Mid Level
H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$140k - $175k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Learn Ascend’s platform, product, customer workflows, prompt engineering, data extraction, testing, and monitoring practices.
  • Contribute to user-facing projects and partner with product managers and designers to solve customer challenges.
  • Own prompt logic for part of the product, resolve data extraction issues, and partner on testing and monitoring.
  • Track extraction accuracy, investigate trends, and improve internal tooling for customer and organization onboarding.
  • Own end-to-end features that process millions in insurance premiums.
  • Build intuitive user interfaces for financial operations and maintain product quality through monitoring and continuous improvement.
  • Collaborate with customers to translate needs into scalable solutions for the insurance industry.
  • Develop reusable playbooks and prompt strategies for automation.
  • Build a point-of-sale system for insurance, automate back-office accounting tasks with AI, and help shape technical architecture and processes.
  • Mentor engineers through 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.
  • Strong desire to learn new skills and solve business problems.
  • Familiarity with or interest in learning Ruby on Rails and Next.js is preferred.
  • Familiarity with building external APIs and integrations such as Salesforce is preferred.
  • Experience building payment, checkout, or insurance products is preferred.

Benefits

  • 100% of health premiums covered for the employee and dependents.
  • 401(k) with employer matching options.
  • Unlimited PTO.
  • Company-paid commuter benefits.
  • Parental and family leave.
  • Lunch provided every day.
  • Dog-friendly office.
  • Five days per week onsite at the company's SoMa office in San Francisco.

Tech Stack

HerokuNext.jsPostgreSQLRedisRubyRuby on RailsTailwind CSSTypeScriptVercel

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