Backend Engineer, LLMs, Autonomous Agents

🕒 July 27

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Ascend

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2023

🤝 B2B

💼 Consulting

💰 $2M Seed Round - Ascend on 2025-02

B2B • Consulting

Ascend is a modern platform that partners with entrepreneurial CPA firms, bringing the resources and advantages of a large accounting firm while preserving each firm's independence. Backed by people-focused private equity firm Alpine Investors and founded in January 2023, Ascend provides growth capital, talent acquisition and development, transformative technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives to help regional accounting firms scale. The company is already recognized as a Top 25 firm by Accounting Today.

📋 Description

• Get up to speed on the existing codebase and current product requirements. • Partner closely with Product Management to design and build solutions. • Work hand-in-hand with the Frontend Engineer to deliver complete product slices. • Use AI-native development tools (Claude, Cursor, and similar) as the primary engineering environment. • Contribute to the continued development of Ascend’s Agentic Framework. • Drive AI-enabled architecture and infrastructure decisions. • Internalize and improve Ascend’s software builder tenets. • Deliver high-quality code on time and steadily increase delivery capacity. • Unblock teammates by reviewing code and improving documentation. • Drive sustained improvements in product velocity across the broader engineering organization. • Serve wholeheartedly in the “inverted hierarchy”. • Move with the passion, speed, and accountability of an entrepreneur. • Set a high bar because the mission matters. • Collaborate across functions and firms with a spirit of collegiality. • Bring positivity, optimism, and enthusiasm into the work and the team.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field; equivalent professional experience considered. • Significant experience as a backend or full-stack engineer building and shipping production software, ideally in a high-velocity startup, AI, or enterprise SaaS environment. • Strong proficiency in modern backend languages and frameworks (e.g., Python, TypeScript/Node.js, Go), with a track record of designing scalable APIs and services. • Hands-on experience integrating with foundation model APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar) and building agentic or LLM-powered features in production. • Demonstrated fluency with AI-native development environments (Claude, Cursor, Copilot, or similar) and a clear point of view on how these tools accelerate engineering output. • Strong ROI judgment and the ability to balance close customer collaboration with disciplined prioritization, building toward the long-term vision without getting pulled into low-leverage digressions. • Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and secure coding practices. • Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trust quickly with Product Managers, fellow engineers, and non-technical Partner Firm leaders. • Bias toward delivery, intellectual curiosity, and a genuine excitement about transforming a traditional industry with AI.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary • Flexible working hours • Professional development budget • Home office setup allowance • Global team events