\nPython Software Engineer, Boulder, Colorado, United States OR Remote within U.S. for well qualified candidates \n\n \n\nAbout Ascend \n\nAscend Analytics is an innovative climate technology software and consulting company focused on energy analytics to support an increasingly complex power grid. The company’s products enhance critical power supply decisions for an array of key energy market stakeholders, from short-term operating strategies to long-term investment and resource planning. Ascend recently announced a strategic growth investment from prominent software and climate technology investors Rubicon Technology Partners, a private equity firm which is focused on investing in and growing software companies, Galvanize Climate Solutions, which invests in companies and solutions advancing the energy transition, and Silversmith Capital Partners, a technology-focused growth equity firm. Read more about how the investment will accelerate Ascend’s product innovation here.  To learn more about Ascend, please visit us at www.ascendanalytics.com. \n\nYour Impact at Ascend Analytics \n\nAs a Back-End Software Engineer at Ascend Analytics, you will be part of a collaborative team advancing software solutions and analytics to support the clean-tech power revolution. Your strong software engineering skills will support mission critical decision analytics for renewable and battery storage power providers around the globe. \n\nJob Responsibilities \n\n\nDesign and write clean, scalable, production code (our backend team primarily works in Python, and our frontend team works primarily in JavaScript) \n\nRefactor code for improved performance, stability, and scalability \n\nDevelop automatic tests (such as unit and integration tests) and deployment scripts \n\nImplement systems for collecting, storing, and working with data at scale \n\nWork with our team of analysts and data scientists to integrate and generalize prototype mathematical and data science models within production software \n\nCommunicate clearly and effectively (orally and in writing) with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders \n\nMentor and guide junior engineers \n\nContribute to scoping and design discussions \n\nThis position involves working collaboratively both within your software team and outside with the front-end software engineers, data scientists, and technical sales team. The software development team follows an agile scrum process, and all team members are expected to contribute to technical design reviews, implementation strategies, operational system support, and sprint planning. \n\n\n\n\nRequired Qualifications\n\n\nBS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Information Science, Physics, Operations Research, Statistics, Economics, or Power Systems \n\n5+ years as a back-end software engineer \n\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications\n\n\nDemonstrated academic or professional software coding experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, .NET, Java, C++, C#, Kotlin, Rust, or Javascript, including object-oriented design \n\nFamiliarity with data processing in Python (including Pandas, Numpy, Sympy, Scikit-Learn) is strongly preferred \n\nExperience designing and developing full-stack applications and RESTful web services \n\nFamiliarity or exposure to cloud computing platforms and ecosystems, e.g., Azure, AWS, and containerization, e.g., Docker \n\nData Science, including statistics, machine learning, and data visualization \n\nReferential databases, such as SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL \n\nAbility to communicate with impact and confidence, both orally and in writing \n\nStrong interpersonal skills, teamwork skills, and work ethic \n\nKnowledge of wholesale electricity markets; passion for renewables and storage \n\nExperience with code review, architecture, development, and promotion processes \n\n\n\n\nCompensation: $100,000 - $150,000            \n\nNegotiable based on qualifications and experience. Ascend highly values our employees and often pays above industry average. \n\nWe 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.  \n\nWe celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Ascend Analytics is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristics.   \n\nAscend Analytics is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected]   \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Design, Cloud, Junior, Sales, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nBoulder, Colorado, United States

\nPython Engineer, Boulder, CO OR Remote within U.S. for well qualified candidates\n\n \n\nYour Impact at Ascend Analytics \n\nAs a Back-End Software Engineer at Ascend Analytics, you will be part of a collaborative team advancing software solutions and analytics to support the clean-tech power revolution. Your strong software engineering skills will support mission critical decision analytics for renewable and battery storage power providers around the globe. \n\n \n\nAscend 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 www.ascendanalytics.com. \n\nJob Responsibilities \n\nSupport and advance back-end software applications by: \n\n\nDesign and write clean, scalable, production code (our backend team primarily works in Python, and our frontend team works primarily in JavaScript) \n\nRefactor code for improved performance, stability, and scalability \n\nDevelop automatic tests (such as unit and integration tests) and deployment scripts \n\nImplement systems for collecting, storing, and working with data at scale \n\nWork with our team of analysts and data scientists to integrate and generalize prototype mathematical and data science models within production software \n\nCommunicate clearly and effectively (orally and in writing) with both technical and nontechnical stakeholders \n\nMentor and guide junior engineers \n\nContribute to scoping and design discussions \n\nThis position involves working collaboratively both within your software team and outside with the front-end software engineers, data scientists, and technical sales team. The software development team follows an agile scrum process, and all team members are expected to contribute to technical design reviews, implementation strategies, operational system support, and sprint planning. \n\n\n\n\n \n\nRequired Qualifications \n\n\nBS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, Data/Information Science, Physics, Operations Research, Statistics, Economics, or Power Systems \n\n2+ years as a back-end software engineer \n\n\n\n\nPreferred Qualifications \n\n\nDemonstrated academic or professional software coding experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, .NET, Java, C++, C#, Kotlin, Rust, or Javascript, including object-oriented design \n\nFamiliarity with data processing in Python (including Pandas, Numpy, Sympy, Scikit-Learn) is strongly preferred \n\nExperience designing and developing full-stack applications and RESTful web services \n\nFamiliarity or exposure to cloud computing platforms and ecosystems, e.g., Azure, AWS, and containerization, e.g., Docker \n\nData Science, including statistics, machine learning, and data visualization \n\nReferential databases, such as SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL \n\nAbility to communicate with impact and confidence, both orally and in writing \n\nStrong interpersonal skills, teamwork skills, and work ethic \n\nKnowledge of wholesale electricity markets; passion for renewables and storage \n\nExperience with code review, architecture, development, and promotion processes \n\n\n\n\nCompensation: $100,000 - $150,000, we may also consider Junior candidates in the range of $80,000 - $110,000                \n\nNegotiable based on qualifications and experience. Ascend highly values our employees and often pays above industry average. \n\nWe 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.  \n\nWe celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Ascend Analytics is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, genetic information or other applicable legally protected characteristics.   \n\nAscend Analytics is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at [email protected]   \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Python, Design, Consulting, Cloud, Sales, Engineer and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $100,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n
\n\n#Location\nBoulder, Colorado, United States

\nAt Dataquest, we teach data science to a community of hundreds of thousands of students worldwide. We help students deeply learn concepts, build projects, work together, and gain the confidence they need to start new careers. Read more about our philosophy here, and read what students think here.\n\nWe want to eventually help tens of millions of students worldwide change their lives through data science education, and you’ll play a key role in helping us get there. We're looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to help support and evolve our learning platform.\n\nWho Should Apply?\n\nWe’re seeking a senior frontend engineer who enjoys working on various frontend applications, building new features, and maintaining and enhancing our existing code. You’ll be responsible for driving progress and quality in our frontend codebase, so vision and strategy are key.\n\nYou must be passionate about learning, and enjoy developing new features without regressions and in a rapid iteration cycle. We’re seeking someone with senior level experience who enjoys mentoring other engineers. You’ll have a lot of autonomy in how you work and will be responsible for setting frontend development guidelines and best practices organization-wide.\n\nHow You’ll Contribute:\n\n\n* Lead the development and improvement of frontend features.\n\n* Help create an improved frontend architecture.\n\n* Set frontend development guidelines and code quality standards.\n\n* Mentor junior engineers.\n\n* Collaborate with the engineering team to develop a resilient and scalable frontend platform.\n\n* Decide when to incur and when to pay down technical debt.\n\n* Identify and fix frontend bugs.\n\n\n\n\n\nRequirements\n\nMust Have:\n\n\n* 5 + years of web development experience.\n\n* Strong verbal and written communications skills -- with an emphasis on clarity, empathy, and kindness.\n\n* Agile experience.\n\n* Experience measuring the effectiveness of the features you work on.\n\n* Experience leading architectural discussions and creating milestones.\n\n* Experience mentoring other engineers.\n\n* Experience maintaining a frontend build process.\n\n\n\n\n\nNice To Have:\n\n\n* Passion for education and/or education technology.\n\n* Passion for or interest in data science.\n\n* 2 + years of Python and Django experience.\n\n* You’re interested in and seek new technology that can improve your work.\n\n* Experience working remotely.\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Stack\n\nThese are some of the technologies you'll be working with at Dataquest, though you may end up introducing new ones:\n\n\n* Our frontend is a React using Redux, GraphQL, and WebSockets.\n\n* The backend is Django on Python 3.\n\n* We use Docker extensively, both for student code execution and for deployment of our services.\n\n* We use Kubernetes on Google Cloud to orchestrate our containers in production.\n\n* Our data is largely stored in Postgres, with some caching in Redis.\n\n* We use Git for source control, CircleCI testing, and deployment, and Prometheus with Grafana for monitoring and alerting.\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy You Should Work at Dataquest:\n\n\n* Flexible Paid Time Off.\n\n* Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance and 401K (available to US team members).\n\n* The opportunity to see your impact on the lives of our students every day.\n\n* The chance to work with an engaged and mission-driven team.\n\n* The chance to contribute to product direction and decisions.\n\n* The ability to work remotely.\n\n* A supportive environment where you can get help when you run into blockers.\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Front End, React, Education, Cloud, Git, Python, Junior and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n