About Ascend

Backed by private equity from people-focused Alpine Investors, Ascend is building a dynamic platform for regional accounting firms that enables them to stay independent while accessing the resources of a Top 25 firm to help them grow. Ascend provides access to growth capital, robust talent acquisition and training, leading quality management resources, best-of-breed technology, AI tools, an offshore captive, shared back-office services, a catalytic leadership system, and modernized equity incentives so that firms can surmount today’s industry challenges to reach their full potential.

For more information, visit www.ascendtogether.com.

About Alpine Investors

Alpine Investors is a people-driven private equity firm that is committed to building great companies by working with, learning from, and developing exceptional people. Alpine prides itself on fostering cultures where people value empowerment, diversity, fairness, integrity, and intellectual honesty. Founded in 2001, Alpine specializes in investments in companies in the software and services industries. Alpine has over $15 billion in AUM and has offices in San Francisco, New York, and Salt Lake City.

For more information on the firm, visit www.alpineinvestors.com

Position Summary

Ascend is building an Engineering, Product, and Design team to deliver AI driven transformation across our accounting platform. Our first major focus is tax workflows, which represent the majority of our revenue and involve significant manual effort performed by highly skilled professionals.

The thesis is simple and ambitious. By redesigning tax workflows with modern AI and Large Language Models, we can meaningfully reduce project effort, improve quality, and change how accountants spend their time. The opportunity is to reshape the cost structure of the business and make accounting a more attractive long term profession.

We are looking for a Front End Product Engineer who can build quickly in close collaboration with accountants while maintaining a strong architectural foundation. You will design and implement user interfaces that power AI backed workflows, reduce effort in measurable ways, and integrate cleanly with our backend systems.

This role requires hands on ownership, strong product judgment, and comfort operating in ambiguity. You will move from problem discovery to production code in tight feedback loops with real users. You will help define how accountants interact with AI in their daily work.

Key Responsibilities

Work directly with accountants at partner firms to understand tax workflow pain points and validate solutions

Rapidly design and ship production quality frontend experiences that reduce manual effort

Build and integrate critical user flows for our Tax products in close collaboration with product managers and backend engineers

Translate complex, document heavy workflows into clear, intuitive interfaces

Design reusable frontend components that promote consistency, speed, and scalability

Refactor and improve frontend architecture to support long term product expansion

Ensure high standards for performance, accessibility, maintainability, and reliability

Implement logging, metrics, and instrumentation to surface issues before they impact users

Leverage AI coding tools and emerging autonomous development agents to accelerate output

Contribute to prompt design and user interface patterns that improve the performance and usability of LLM powered features

Participate in product planning discussions to prioritize features that drive measurable effort reduction

Support deployment and rollout efforts by responding quickly to feedback and production issues

Qualifications

5 or more years of experience building production grade frontend applications

Strong expertise in TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks, with React preferred

Demonstrated experience shipping user facing features in fast moving environments

Proven ability to move from user discovery to implemented solution with minimal hand holding

Experience building reusable component systems and improving frontend architecture over time