Full Stack Engineer, Boulder, CO
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 serves 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 Analytics
We are seeking a Full Stack Engineer at Ascend Analytics to be part of a collaborative team advancing software solutions and analytics to support the clean-tech power revolution. You will be responsible for development, documentation, and deployment packaging of exciting new cloud-based and hosted software applications, including UI/UX, business layer, documentation, test design and deployment scripting.
Job Responsibilities
- Design and write clean, scalable, production code (our backend team primarily works in C# and Python, and our frontend team works primarily in React)
- Refactor code for improved performance, stability, and scalability
- Develop automatic tests (such as unit and integration tests) and deployment scripts
- 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
- 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 in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Information Science, Mathematics, or a related field
- 1+ years of hands-on experience in a similar position
- Demonstrated academic or professional software coding experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, .NET, Java, C++, C#, Kotlin, Rust, or Javascript, including object-oriented design
- Knowledge of a modern JavaScript front-end framework, HTML, and CSS
Preferred Qualifications
- API development experience
- Experience with DevOps best practices and version control
- Experience with React UI Framework or equivalent (e.g., Razor)
- Experience with Azure, particularly Functions, Batch, Virtual Machines, Fabric, and PowerBI
- Understanding of OAUTH 2.0
Compensation: $75,000 - $95,000
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 [email protected]
Top Skills
What We Do
Founded in 2002, Ascend is an employee owned software service company based in Boulder, Colorado. Ascend’s management team has over 60 years of direct energy experience. Our focus remains the analytic and data infrastructure to support decision analysis from the next hour to the next thirty years. Ascend has utilized the latest technologies and modeling techniques to allow energy analysts and risk managers to meet today’s challenges.
Primary Software Uses:
* Portfolio Analysis * Asset Valuation * Hedge Optimization * Planning & Budgeting
* Capacity Expansion* Risk & Scenario Analysis
Ascend Analytics has combined industry leading model capability with robust client support. This has allowed our customers to dramatically improve decision analysis and gain competitive advantage in the marketplace.