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Software Engineer

Ascend · San Francisco · On-site

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About Ascend

The only complete financial operations platform built for agencies, MGAs, wholesalers, and carriers. Backed by Index and South Park Commons.

About the role

Ascend is seeking a Software Engineer to join our team on-site in San Francisco to help expand our core product. As an Engineer at Ascend, you’ll be part of a small but growing team focused on solving complex technical challenges using Ruby. You’ll also interface directly with customers and work cross-functionally to develop new product features, dashboards, and checkout processes—without any layers.

What they're looking for

  • 1-3 years of relevant experience
  • Experience working at a growth-stage startup
  • Experience with relational databases
  • Experience building and scaling consumer products
  • A strong desire to learn new skills and solve business problems
More about this role

What We Do

Insurance is a $10T industry still running on PDFs, email threads, and manual reconciliation. Ascend is changing that. We built the first and only complete financial operations platform purpose-built for insurance — combining accounting automation, payments, and premium financing in a single vertically integrated solution. In five years, we've become the market leader: over 4,000 businesses, including more than half of the 50 largest brokers in the country, trust Ascend to bring clarity to complex accounting operations — from collection to close.

How We Do It

Ascend automates the financial operations that insurers, MGAs, and agencies run every day — and embeds directly into the transactions where money actually moves. Point solutions are easy to build and even easier to copy. The companies that win won't just sell tools — they'll capture value where the money actually moves. Ascend is built for exactly that moment. Our customers don't just adopt software — they unlock measurable efficiency with a proven 5–7x return on investment.

Our team is based in San Francisco and Columbus. We bring deep expertise in insurance, fintech, and financial infrastructure to build what the...

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