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