Overview
Ascend Innovations is looking for a Software Engineer to join our team and help us build products and solutions that enable behavioral health organizations to serve the most vulnerable populations. We work with clients ranging from addiction recovery boards to behavioral health organizations to align data and technology with the design of effective programs, services, and interventions.
This engineering position will work within a small team of talented engineers, interfacing with product/project managers, front-end engineers, and user experience teammates to drive final solution delivery.
🌄 About Ascend
Ascend Innovations is a behavioral health data and technology company that empowers organizations across the continuum of care by creating better data accessibility, visibility, and connectedness through front-end solutions that inform the design of more effective community programs, services, and interventions.
❤️ What We Value
Our team culture is rooted in trust, curiosity, responsibility, resilience, and collaboration. An excellent fit for our company will exhibit these characteristics in their daily decisions, actions, and behaviors.
- Trust is the foundation of our relationships, where open communication and consistent actions create a sense of reliability and mutual respect.
- We lead with curiosity by asking questions to challenge assumptions, explore alternative perspectives, and create meaningful solutions for complex behavioral health challenges.
- We follow through on our commitments, addressing challenges head-on and ensuring that our work reflects our dedication to quality and dependability for our clients.
- With persistence, flexibility, and focus on forward progress, we overcome obstacles together and continuously improve through adversity.
- Our strength lies in genuine, cross-functional relationships, where asking questions, listening, and being open-minded create an environment where we collectively solve challenges.
☕️ Perks
- 🏝 Flexible Time Off
- 🍼 3 months of fully paid parental leave
- 🌎 Work Remotely or Hybrid
🧬 Who You Are
- Proven work experience in web application development
- Solid knowledge of HTML, CSS, JS (Sveltekit), Python (Django), and SQL (PostgreSQL)
- Experience in writing clear and concise test plans and test cases
- Experience with automated testing in a CI/CD pipeline using GitHub Actions and AWS
- Experience with performance and/or security testing is a plus
- Experience dealing with HIPAA compliance requirements is a plus
☀️ As an Ascend Software Engineer, on a given day, you might:
- Work with Account, User Experience, and Engineering teams to identify requirements
- Develop full-stack applications, doing front-end and back-end engineering work as needed
- Create automated tests using tools such as Playwright and Vitest
- Plan and coordinate testing activities and identify, document, and track open defects
- Perform thorough regression testing when bugs are resolved
🦾 What Our Engineering Team Values
Our engineering team values curiosity, creativity, simplicity, and craftsmanship.
- We desire to continuously learn, explore, and experiment
- We believe that software engineering is a creative pursuit
- We believe even complex things can be simple and elegant
- We desire to craft high-quality applications with care and attention to detail
📍 Where You’ll Be
- We are a distributed workforce, enabling our teammates to find the best work mode for them!
- We offer flexible, fully remote, hybrid, or in-office working arrangements.
- Our primary office is in Dayton, Ohio (EST Timezone).
- We ask that all employees be located within the United States.
✨ Benefits Highlight
- Competitive salary
- Inclusive healthcare package (medical, dental, & vision)
- 85% coverage of medical premiums
- 100% coverage of dental premiums
- 50% coverage of vision premiums
- Automatic 4% 401K employer contribution
- Health Savings Account with employer upfront bonus and match
- Flexible working style
- in-office, hybrid, or 100% remote, with teammates located throughout the US
Top Skills
What We Do
Ascend is a technology company that provides data-driven solutions to help organizations solve complex community health problems.
Formed out of a unique collaboration between the Greater Dayton Area Hospital Association and three major hospital networks (Premier Health, Kettering Health, and Dayton Children’s), we are uniquely positioned to serve all communities to address their most complex health problems, including mental health, addiction, chronic diseases, and social determinants of health.
Our business model is two-fold. First and foremost, we provide quality technology services to community health organizations as our core strategy for sustainment and growth. Secondly, as a fundamental tenet to the formation of Ascend, we seek to identify products that are commercially viable through these service engagements to create scalable spinout companies. Positiv.ly, LLC, a mental health application for high school students, is the first spinout of Ascend.
In terms of culture, we value drive, trust, accountability, perseverance, and community. We believe that life does not equal work. We believe in being direct with positive intent and leading each interaction with empathy. We are intentional about giving first. We kindly poke the bear. We laugh (A LOT). We believe that teamwork makes the dream work. And most of all, we believe that our differences make us stronger.
