Senior Software Engineer, Ruby

Senior Software Engineer, Ruby Reports To: Director of Engineering Who You Are The Senior Software Engineer will join our team of technologists that are committed to building excellent software solutions for customers. You will thrive at Ascent if you love building delightful products with wonderful people, enjoy learning and teaching others, and value autonomy.  Who We Are Ascent is the industry's leading compliance automation solution. We’re propelling the world of regulatory compliance forward by offering greater efficiencies, cost savings, and accuracy. With extensive experience applying machine learning to regulatory data, we help customers in financial services automate their compliance programs, significantly reducing their risk while saving time and money. We prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion and believe strongly that a team with a variety of backgrounds and perspectives produces better results. `We understand that having strong and empathetic professional support from management is critical for professional growth and cultivating happy teams. Together, we are solving a $64 billion global problem in regulatory compliance.  Responsibilities You will contribute to our end-to-end product solution, spanning systems that extract metadata from regulatory documents, orchestrate complex data transformations, model regulatory data in a graph database, and deliver that data to our customers via UIs and APIs.  You will: Collaborate closely with our Product organization to build world-class applications for our customers Use creativity and independent thinking to solve challenging problems around data scale and service-oriented design  Work with our internal domain experts to create tools and automation that empower them to manage complex, ever-changing data  Help us advance our engineering best practices as we build extensible software  Work closely with teammates to help them level up as engineers  Skills and Experience  8+ years delivering API-driven Ruby on Rails applications  Experience with at least one modern frontend Javascript framework (Vue.js, React, Angular)  Strong understanding of SQL and experience writing efficient queries and views  Commitment to thorough tests and documentation for maintainable code-bases  Empathy for and ability to listen to our internal customers and respond to their needs  Experience with scalable distributed applications and service-oriented architectures  Bonus points for experience with:  Python programming language  Web crawling and/or scraping  Graph Databases like Neo4j  Docker and Kubernetes  Amazon Web Services  Benefits  Ascent employees enjoy many benefits and perks, including: Competitive compensation  Medical, dental, and vision insurance; premiums paid 95% for the individual  Medical premiums paid at 95% for all covered dependents under our Choice tier Medical HSA/FSAs  Life insurance   401K   Disability benefits  Dependent Care FSA   Flexible PTO  Professional development stipend  Charitable matching gift program  The opportunity to work with smart people on challenging problems!