Software Engineer, IT Software Engineers

Ascensus; Salt Lake City (UT); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ascensus is seeking a Software Engineer to join a high‑energy team in Salt Lake City. You will write clean, maintainable code using modern engineering practices, with emphasis on unit testing, source control, CI/CD, and automation.

As a Scrum team member, you will contribute to delivering solutions aligned with architecture, coding standards, and policies while collaborating with developers, QE, and operations to ensure smooth deployment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software & systems development in SMB environments.
• Experience with C#, Java, JavaScript and SQL databases.
• Strong problem solving and OOP understanding (SOLID).
• Familiarity with RESTful services and SOA concepts.
• Experience with CI/CD, testing, automation and design patterns.

Responsibilities

• Protect confidential data and ensure secure handling of information.
• Analyze, implement, test, document and maintain software with minimal oversight.
• Assist in estimating and planning across the SDLC.
• Collaborate with developers, QE, ops and support to deploy and operate.

Skills

C#

Java

JavaScript

OO design

SOLID

REST APIs

CI/CD

Unit testing

Agile

Design patterns

Python

MySQL

Redis

Knockout.js

jQuery

Tools

MS-SQL Server

Sybase

Apache

Nginx

MySQL

Redis

Knockout.js

jQuery

Job description

Ascensus is the leading independent technology and service platform powering savings plans across America, providing products and expertise that help nearly 16 million people save for a better today and tomorrow.

Section 1: Position Summary

As a Software Engineer at Ascensus, you will be working in a high-energy team, writing beautiful code by using the best engineering practices in the industry today (e.g. unit testing, source control, continuous integration, automation, design patterns). Passion for all aspects of software development is critical. We are building teams that are empowered to solve the business needs by having a rapid development and deployment pipeline with a focus on automation and releasing software.

As a Scrum team member, you will be responsible for delivering solutions that adhere to the software architecture strategy, coding standards, and established organizational policies and procedures.

Section 2: Job Functions, Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Responsible for protecting, securing, and proper handling of all confidential data held by Ascensus to ensure against unauthorized access, improper transmission, and/or unapproved disclosure of information that could result in harm to Ascensus or our clients.
• Our I-Client service philosophy and our Core Values of People Matter, Quality First and Integrity Always® should be visible in your actions on a day to day basis showing your support of our organizational culture.
• Analyze, implement, test, document and maintain new and current software applications with minimal oversight in support of achieving the business goals.
• Assist in estimating and planning throughout the software development life cycle.
• Support people and process improvement strategies for the organization.
• Assist with other tasks and projects as assigned.

Supervision

N/A

Section 3: Experience, Skills, Knowledge Requirements

• 3+ years of experience developing software & systems for small to medium business environments
• Working experience in one or more programming languages, technologies and software platforms, such as C#, Java, JavaScript, MS-SQL Server, Sybase.
• At least 3+ year’s hands‑on experience with one of the programming languages (e.g. C# and Java)
• Good experience with the Microsoft technology stack
• Strong problem solving skills
• Good understanding of design principles (patterns, cohesion/coupling, S.O.L.I.D.)
• Strong knowledge of object‑oriented design, data structures and algorithms
• Familiarity with Services Oriented Architecture and RESTful services development
• Good experience with writing clean and maintainable code using engineering best practices (unit testing, continuous integration and deployment, automation, design patterns, refactoring etc.)
• Experience working with other developers, quality engineers (QE), ops engineers and support engineers to ensure smooth deployment and continual operation
• Passion for developing good software
• Experience participating in design discussions with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Familiarity or experience with Agile engineering practices (test driven development, continuous integration and pair programming, etc.)
• Working experience with Python, C/C++, MySQL, Apache, Ngnix, Redis, JavaScript, jQuery, Knockout.js
• Experience in open source development
• Understanding of web technologies (HTTP, Apache, HTTP Proxies)
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD)
• Experience with working with legacy code

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.