Backend Software Engineer

Description:

As a Backend Software Engineer at Ascend Analytics, you will be part of a collaborative team advancing software solutions and analytics to support the clean-tech power revolution. Your strong software engineering skills will support mission critical decision analytics for renewable and battery storage power providers around the globe. If you want to help shape a new future of a cleaner, most cost-effective energy supply and work for an industry-leading software company with dedicated and talented people passionate about our future, this could be a great fit. Ascend is a fast growing and profitable company with opportunity for advancement.

Ascend Analytics is an innovative “climate tech” software and consulting company focused on energy analytics that are transforming the electric grid to renewables. Ascend's solutions provide the analytics to support critical power supply decisions from operating strategies over the next hour, to hedging and budgeting decisions over the next five years, to long-term investment and resource planning decisions over the next thirty years.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and write clean, scalable, production code (our backend team primarily works in Python, and our frontend team works primarily in JavaScript)
• Refactor code for improved performance, stability, and scalability
• Develop automatic tests (such as unit and integration tests) and deployment scripts
• Implement systems for collecting, storing, and working with data at scale
• Work with our team of analysts and data scientists to integrate and generalize prototype mathematical and data science models within production software
• Communicate clearly and effectively (orally and in writing) with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders
• Mentor and guide junior engineers
• Contribute to scoping and design discussions
• This position involves working collaboratively both within your software team and outside with the front-end software engineers, data scientists, and technical sales team. The software development team follows an agile scrum process, and all team members are expected to contribute to technical design reviews, implementation strategies, operational system support, and sprint planning.

Required Qualifications

• BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Information Science, Physics, Operations Research, Statistics, Economics, or Power Systems
• 2+ years as a backend software engineer