Software Engineer - Ascendancy

Role

• Title: Partner, Software Engineer

• Compensation: $80,000 - $120,000

• Location: Remote

• Commitment: Full-time

• Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, and Insurance Coverage

• Bonus: bonus potential based on company performance

• Equity: Entry Level Partner Equity

About Ascendancy
Our leadership team has built multi-billion-dollar businesses and partnered with clients like OpenAI and Microsoft. Ascendancy is well-funded and on track for $6M ARR by 2026, targeting $100M ARR within three years. It is a rare opportunity to work in a high-growth start-up that’s relatively low-risk with huge upside and responsibility.

Core Function

This Software Engineer will help build the first-of-its-kind Network OS: an AI-powered platform that maps, tracks, and activates human relationship capital at scale. This tool will give CEOs instant visibility into their networks, outperform LinkedIn for opportunity sourcing, surpass CRMs for warm intros, and offer richer connections than other similar platforms. It will visualize deep network graphs across VIP stakeholders (investors, board members, shareholders) and power Ascendancy’s mission to be the most well connected company in the world.

Responsibilities

• Design and build robust backend platform architecture and core API integrations

• Develop and maintain scalable data pipelines to support internal analytics and AI/ML applications

• Manage and optimize Ascendancy’s data lake/warehouse

• Design data workflows that integrate and experiment with ML models

• Ensure high performance, security, and reliability across backend systems

• Lead infrastructure decisions, especially related to data governance and scalability

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency with Python, Neo4J graph databases, and the FastAPI framework

• Proficiency with frontend frameworks, particularly NextJS/Typescript & React

• Experience with data pipeline tools (e.g., Airflow, dbt, Kafka, Spark, etc.)

• Comfortable working with cloud infrastructure (ideally GCP)

• Solid understanding of relational and non-relational databases

• Preferred: Interest in AI/ML workflows (building inference pipelines)

• Preferred: Past experience with Gmail, WhatsApp, or SMS integrations

• Extremely detail-oriented, adaptive, collaborative growth mindset, and proactive

• Solid organizational, analytical, logical reasoning, oral, and written presentation skills

Expectations

• Full-time, full-throttle position with deliverables set on a long-term roadmap and 1-2 week long sprints

• Collaboration with tech leadership to establish KPIs for key story points (both user and system level)

• Ability to map software operations with software spend and user usage metrics