Frontend Product Engineer - Canada

Ascend Partner Services

About The Position

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, robust talent acquisition, best-of-breed 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 attained revenues sufficient to qualify it as a Top 100 U.S. accounting firm within six months of operation. For more information, visit 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.

Requirements

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
Deep understanding of responsive design, accessibility standards, and frontend performance optimization
Experience integrating frontend applications with backend APIs and complex data flows
Comfort working closely with non technical users and incorporating direct feedback
Experience using AI driven development tools to increase productivity
Strong product intuition and bias toward delivering measurable business impact

Nice To Haves

Experience building AI or Large Language Model powered user interfaces
Familiarity with prompt engineering or LLM observability concepts
Exposure to workflow automation or document heavy enterprise applications

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