<div class="content-intro"><div> <div class="standard-markdown grid-cols-1 grid [&_>_*]:min-w-0 gap-3 !gap-3.5"> <h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">What We Do</span></h3> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Insurance is a $10T industry still running on PDFs, email threads, and manual reconciliation. Ascend is changing that. We built the first and only complete financial operations platform purpose-built for insurance — combining AI-powered accounting automation, payments, and premium financing in a single vertically integrated solution. In five years, we've become the market leader: over 4,000 businesses, including more than half of the 50 largest brokers in the country, trust Ascend to bring clarity to complex accounting operations — from collection to close.</span></p> <h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">How We Do It</span></h3> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ascend automates the financial operations that insurers, MGAs, and agencies run every day — and embeds directly into the transactions where money actually moves.</span></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">AI is driving the cost of software toward zero. The companies that win won't just sell tools — they'll capture value at the point of the transaction itself. Ascend is built for exactly that moment. Our customers don't just adopt software; they unlock measurable efficiency with a proven 5–7x return on investment.</span></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Our 70+ person team, based in San Francisco and Columbus, brings together deep expertise in insurance, fintech, and AI to build infrastructure the industry has never had.</span></p> <h3 class="text-text-100 mt-3 -mb-1 text-[1.125rem] font-bold"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Why We Do It</span></h3> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">The insurance industry intermediates trillions of dollars — and almost none of that infrastructure was built for the modern era. Legacy systems aren't just inefficient; they're a ceiling on what the industry can become.</span></p> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">Ascend's mission is to become the leading financial automation platform for insurance by 2030 — powering the financial operations of the entire industry and transforming the way trillions of dollars move. We're not building another point solution. We're building the financial backbone of insurance.</span></p> </div> </div> <div class="h-8"> </div></div><h2 data-start="127" data-end="139"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Your Role</span></h2> <p data-start="141" data-end="557"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Ascend is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team on-site in San Francisco to help expand our core product. As an Engineer at Ascend, you’ll be part of a small but growing team focused on solving complex technical challenges using Ruby. You’ll also interface directly with our customers and work cross-functionally to develop new product features, dashboards, and checkout processes—without any layers.</span></p> <h3 data-start="559" data-end="592"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Responsibilities Will Include</span></h3> <p data-start="594" data-end="636"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong data-start="594" data-end="634">Objective #1: In your first 30 days:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;" data-start="639" data-end="765"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Understand Ascend’s platform, product, and customer workflows by collaborating with team members and engaging with customers</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;" data-start="768" data-end="836"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Contribute to user-facing projects using Ruby on Rails and Next.js</span></li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;" data-start="839" data-end="922"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Partner with product managers and designers to solve customer challenges directly</span></li> </ul> <p data-start="924" data-end="966"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong data-start="924" data-end="964">Objective #2: In your first 60 days:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12pt;" data-start="969" data-end="1072"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, san