Ascend empowers entrepreneurial CPAs to reach their goals with an innovative growth model that brings their firms into the new age.
Backed by private equity from people-focused Alpine Investors, Ascend is building a modern platform for regional accounting firms that enables them to stay independent while accessing the resources of a large CPA firm to help them grow.
Ascend provides access to growth capital, innovative talent acquisition and development, revolutionary technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives so that firms can surmount today’s industry challenges and reach their full potential.
Founded in January 2023, the company is already a Top 25 firm according to Accounting Today.

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Ascend is a modern platform that partners with entrepreneurial CPA firms, bringing the resources and advantages of a large accounting firm while preserving each firm's independence. Backed by people-focused private equity firm Alpine Investors and founded in January 2023, Ascend provides growth capital, talent acquisition and development, transformative technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives to help regional accounting firms scale. The company is already recognized as a Top 25 firm by Accounting Today.

Ascend empowers entrepreneurial CPAs to reach their goals with an innovative growth model that brings their firms into the new age. Backed by private equity from people-focused Alpine Investors, Ascend is building a modern platform for regional accounting firms that enables them to stay independent while accessing the resources of a large CPA firm to help them grow. Ascend provides access to growth capital, innovative talent acquisition and development, revolutionary technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives so that firms can surmount today’s industry challenges and reach their full potential. Founded in January 2023, the company is already a Top 25 firm according to Accounting Today.

• 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 Tax products with product managers and backend engineers
• Translate complex, document-heavy workflows into clear, intuitive interfaces
• Design reusable frontend components for consistency, speed, and scalability
• Refactor and improve frontend architecture for long-term product expansion
• Ensure performance, accessibility, maintainability, and reliability
• Implement logging, metrics, and instrumentation to identify issues before they affect users
• Use AI coding tools and emerging autonomous development agents to accelerate output
• Contribute to prompt design and UI patterns that improve LLM-powered feature performance and usability
• Participate in product planning to prioritize features that drive measurable effort reduction
• Support deployment and rollout by responding to feedback and production issues

Frontend Product Engineer

Frontend Product Engineer building AI-powered tax workflow interfaces for accounting firms. Designing scalable React experiences that reduce manual effort and improve accountants’ daily work.

ai-engineer

• Design and ship the autonomous agent framework that makes those workflows vanish behind a chat-first interface
• Prototype and deploy autonomous agents that take a request, gather context, decide next steps and deliver finished work with minimal human touch
• Design the tool-API layer that lets agents trigger real-world actions (emails, filings, database updates) safely and auditable from day one
• Build the backbone of our agents: a lightning-fast context engine that digests messy inbox threads, docs, and notes, and serves only the gold-standard facts to the model
• Own the whole eval stack, datasets, lightning-fast benches, and live telemetry, so we can prototype in hours, A/B with real metrics, and ship to prod (or roll back) with total confidence
• Embed red-team tests, PI-scrubbing, and role-based access gates directly into the inference path, so safety is baked in, not bolted on
• Ship an internal playground where PMs and engineers can compose, test, and share agent chains in minutes, no local setup required.

AI Engineer, LLMs, Autonomous Agents – R&D

AI Engineer at Ascend Partner Services designing autonomous agents to streamline document-heavy workflows. Collaborating on cutting-edge LLM technologies to enhance productivity and efficiency.

backend-engineer

• Get up to speed on the existing codebase and current product requirements.
• Partner closely with Product Management to design and build solutions.
• Work hand-in-hand with the Frontend Engineer to deliver complete product slices.
• Use AI-native development tools (Claude, Cursor, and similar) as the primary engineering environment.
• Contribute to the continued development of Ascend’s Agentic Framework.
• Drive AI-enabled architecture and infrastructure decisions.
• Internalize and improve Ascend’s software builder tenets.
• Deliver high-quality code on time and steadily increase delivery capacity.
• Unblock teammates by reviewing code and improving documentation.
• Drive sustained improvements in product velocity across the broader engineering organization.
• Serve wholeheartedly in the “inverted hierarchy”.
• Move with the passion, speed, and accountability of an entrepreneur.
• Set a high bar because the mission matters.
• Collaborate across functions and firms with a spirit of collegiality.
• Bring positivity, optimism, and enthusiasm into the work and the team.

Backend Engineer, LLMs, Autonomous Agents

Senior Backend Engineer at Ascend, driving AI-enabled transformation in public accounting. Collaborating with teams to enhance tax products and architect AI innovations.

product-specialist

• Manage the release and adoption of product rollouts to partner firms and their clients, with a focus on releasing quickly and iteratively
• Become the subject matter expert on our products, creating and presenting effective training materials and process documentation
• Support in testing and validating new features and products before release
• Own release and product roadmap communications with our partner firms and partner services teams
• Consistently work with partner services to align cross functional teams on common goals and outcomes, and identify areas of collaboration
• Build strong relationships and trust with leaders and employees at our partner firms
• Support in executing on EPD team collaboration processes so we work as effectively as possible as a team
• Collaborate early with product managers and engineers to help define the scope of projects and to add insights that ensure we are building the right products for our users
• Manage a strong feedback loop process to both ensure our firms feel that their feedback is actioned, and work closely with our product managers and engineers to effectively action feedback
• Establish deployment and change management logistics and processes
• Defining, monitoring, and reporting on leading and lagging product metrics that align with desired outcomes
• Clearly communicating outcomes to the Ascend leadership team, recommending necessary pivots, and reprioritizing based on outcomes

Product Deployment Specialist

Senior Product Deployment Specialist managing product rollouts for partner accounting firms. Collaborating with teams to ensure successful adoption and relationship building with stakeholders.

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