Ascendify

San Francisco, CA | Posted: 5 years ago

Ascendify is looking for a full time Backend Engineer to join our team. 
As a backend engineer you will work with a Sr. Backend Engineer to build new and maintain existing projects. You must be capable of working in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment, be self-motivated, results-driven and detail-oriented to achieve success.  Headquartered in downtown San Francisco, Ascendify is a rapidly growing, venture-backed company with a roster of clients that includes GE, Cisco, Panasonic, Disney, Deloitte, and Marriott.

Responsibilities:

• Write high-performance, reusable, modular code along with automated unit tests


• Create new functions and features to improve the Ascendify product

Qualifications:

• 3+ year of experience working with a scripting language; Python, PHP or Ruby


• Experience working with an Object Oriented language


• SQL experience


• Extraordinary communication skills


• Willing/able to learn (if needed, and) primarily use PHP and Scala (it will initially be 100% PHP with some Scala, and could be up to 50% Scala if you are great at Scala).

Preferences:

• B.S. in Computer Sciences or related discipline


• Experience with Scala, Java or C++


• Experience with Play Framework