Director of Engineering

Director of Engineering 

About Ascend

Ascend Analytics’ climate technology software and services provide critical insights to power the energy transition. The company’s products enhance critical power supply decisions from short-term operating strategies to long-term investment and resource planning. Ascend’s solutions serve as the core analytic infrastructure for electric utilities, independent power producers, electric retailers, and financiers of energy infrastructure. To learn more about Ascend, please visit us at www.ascendanalytics.com.     

Your Impact at Ascend 

This role involves leading a team to develop scalable software solutions, collaborating with diverse stakeholders, and envisioning the future evolution of production scale software. It necessitates proactive leadership, guiding developers, advancing architecture, and driving innovation while influencing clean energy market transformation through impactful software solutions.  

Job Responsibilities 

• You will be the driving force behind the design and development of our SaaS products, from back-end analytics and optimization to efficient APIs and responsive user-friendly user interfaces.  
• Implement and refine a comprehensive development strategy that ensures the highest levels of quality and reliability in our products and support agile methodologies. 
• Drive performance, stability, and scalability of our software solutions across the Full Stack. 
• Communicate with internal and external customers to understand user experience. 
• Communicate with other divisions of the company to anticipate future evolution of software. 
• Review, investigate and advise on system architecture and technology platform choices. 
• Support and encourage best practices throughout the entire software life cycle. 
• Provide multiple levels of technical and design documentation. 
• Manage a team of developers, providing guidance, feedback and code review. 

Qualifications and Experience:  

• 5+ years of technical management experience  
• 8+ years of experience as a back-end or full stack software engineer.  
• BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Information Science, or related fields.  
• Strong skills/proficiency in Python and at least one other programming language i.e. Java, C#, Ruby, Rust, Julia.   

• Familiarity with data processing libraries (e.g., Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-Learn).  
• Flexibility to support complex technical issues and critical customer outages for our customers during their times of need.  

Preferred Skills and Knowledge:  

• Full-stack application design and RESTful web services development.  
• Exposure to cloud computing platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS) and containerization (e.g., Docker).  
• Knowledge of data science, statistics, and machine learning. 

Compensation: $180,000 - $220,000 + equity            

Negotiable based on qualifications and experience. Ascend highly values our employees and often pays above industry average. 

We offer flexible work hours in a relaxed environment with opportunities for advancement and excellent benefits, including medical, dental, vision, short- and long-term disability, parental leave, dependent care spending account, and a 401k plan.  

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Ascend Analytics is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristics.   

Ascend Analytics is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at recruiting@ascendanalytics.com