Director of Engineering — Climate Tech SaaS & Scale

This role involves leading a team to develop scalable software solutions, collaborating with diverse stakeholders, and envisioning the future evolution of production scale software. It necessitates proactive leadership, guiding developers, advancing architecture, and driving innovation while influencing clean energy market transformation through impactful software solutions.

Ascend Analytics is an innovative “climate tech” software and consulting company focused on energy analytics that are transforming the electric grid. Ascend's solutions provide the analytics to support critical power supply decisions from operating strategies, for short and long-term investment and resource planning decisions. For more information, visit

Job Responsibilities

• You will be the driving force behind the design and development of our SaaS products, from back-end analytics and optimization to efficient APIs and responsive user-friendly user interfaces.
• Implement and refine a comprehensive development strategy that ensures the highest levels of quality and reliability in our products and support agile methodologies.
• Drive performance, stability, and scalability of our software solutions across the Full Stack.
• Communicate with internal and external customers to understand user experience.
• Communicate with other divisions of the company to anticipate future evolution of software.
• Review, investigate and advise on system architecture and technology platform choices.
• Support and encourage best practices throughout the entire software life cycle.
• Provide multiple levels of technical and design documentation.
• Manage a team of developers, providing guidance, feedback and code review.

Qualifications and

Experience:

• 5+ years of technical management experience
• 8+ years of experience as a back-end or full stack software engineer.
• BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Information Science, or related fields.
• Strong skills/proficiency in Python and at least one other programming language i.e. Java, C#, Ruby, Rust, Julia.
• Familiarity with data processing libraries (e.g., Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-Learn).
• Flexibility to support complex technical issues and critical customer outages for our customers during their times of need.

Preferred Skills and Knowledge:

• Full-stack application design and RESTful web services development.
• Exposure to cloud computing platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS) and containerization (e.g., Docker).
• Knowledge of data science, statistics, and machine learning.

Compensation: $180,000 - $230,000

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.