Backend Engineer, Ascend.io

$120-220k

+ Equity

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

GCP

Python

Azure

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1+ day a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)

Agentic data engineering platform

Job no longer available

Agentic data engineering platform

21-100 employees

B2BInternal toolsSaaSData Analysis

Job no longer available

$120-220k

+ Equity

AWS

Kubernetes

TypeScript

GCP

Python

Azure

Junior, Mid and Senior level

San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

1+ day a week in office (Palo Alto, CA)

21-100 employees

B2BInternal toolsSaaSData Analysis

Company mission

To make data engineering delightful.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Architect: You're passionate about architecture and designing for scale
Breadth: You have a familiarity with a large range of technologies that help you to identify unique and elegant solutions
Scale: You have experience designing, deploying, and operating large scale systems
Polish: You are well versed in monitoring and automation
Skills: 5+ years of experience with skills in Python, Typescript, Kubernetes, and related technologies a plus

What the job involves

As a member of Ascend’s backend engineering team, you will design, implement, and scale a variety of micro-services that power the entire Ascend platform
You will leverage your experience and satiate your curiosity while integrating with the most modern big data and infrastructure platforms in the world
Design and manage robust, simple, and maintainable systems
Drive architectural design decisions that improve the scalability, performance, and efficiency of our backend systems
Integrate and use a wide array of technologies, including AWS, GCP, and Azure cloud services
Evaluate new tools, technologies, and processes to improve team speed and efficiency
Actively participate in our evolving engineering process

Our take

Advanced data analytics has changed the way businesses function in recent years, and companies too slow on the uptake face a turbulent ride ahead. That’s where Ascend.io comes in, offering a unified platform for automating a business’ entire data engineering and analytics workflow.

Its selling point is the scale of the platform, where users can input data from files, apps, APIs and more, and work with them as needed. It runs a flexible multi-code interface, allowing users to build data transformation programs in a way that works for them, and claims to save hours or days of time through its automation capabilities.

Data automation is a busy market though, and Ascend.io faces competition from the likes of unicorn start-up Matillion. But despite the competition, it's seen solid global growth and revenues across Europe and Asia as well as impressive funding, which has aided the expansion of its data cloud capabilities, the hiring of new talent from Google, and the forging of new business partnerships with the likes of data cloud giant Snowflake.

Kirsty

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Apr 2022

$31m

SERIES B

Jul 2019

$19m

SERIES A

Total funding: $69m

Company benefits

Flex PTO: We work hard but also believe that taking time off from work is essential, both personally and professionally
Distributed Workforce: We believe in a successful and communicative remote culture with several activities and options to keep our team connected
Learning & Development Opportunities: We are dedicated to the continuing education of our team with a learning & development stipend, weekly brown bags, workshops & more.
Extensive Benefits: We hire the best and want to provide the best benefits possible with 100% Insurance Coverage, a 401k & more.
Meaningful Equity: We are proud of the company we've built, and we pride ourselves on each team member having ownership in the organization they've helped develop
Social & Team Events: We enjoy each other's company and to celebrate our successes we have quarterly kickoffs, TGIF celebrations, game nights & more

Company HQ

College Terrace, Palo Alto, CA

Leadership

Sean Knapp

(Founder & CEO)

Prior to founding Ascend.io in 2015, Sean founded Ooyala where they served as the CTO and CPO. They also spent nearly 3 years at Google as a Software Engineer.

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