This is a perfect opportunity for ambitious individuals to join a team of curious minds and support peers with a passion and the skills for creating value for businesses using data.

About us

We are Ascent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and do existing things better. We are on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business.

We specialize in software product development, analytics, data science, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, and modernization of applications, data, and platforms.

We work with incredible clients in all types of industries such as smart home devices, space exploration, beer manufacturing, finance, ecology, and logistics. We work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses and we employ the sharpest minds too!

At Ascent, we also believe in fostering a vibrant office community where collaboration thrives and connections flourish. With our hybrid approach, we prioritize hiring individuals who reside in close proximity to our central offices in Bristol and London. Our aim is to cultivate a positive atmosphere and sense of belonging by facilitating easy access to the office. Join us in shaping a workplace where proximity enhances collaboration while inclusivity strengthens our community.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced Shiny developer to work at one of our global re/insurance customers on a range of Shiny optimisation consulting and development engagements. They are expected to bring extensive knowledge in best practices on Shiny design, Shiny performance management, collaboration with version control, release strategy, user access control, and familiarity with other topics such as data architecture, schema modelling and cloud infrastructure. They will be working closely with the customer; this demands professionalism and empathy. A dedicated focus on delivering high-impact outcomes that delight our customers is key.

A successful candidate will have demonstrable experience in enterprise and production-grade Shiny development, including but not limited to:

1. Shiny application performance enhancement
2. Code reviews and optimisation
3. Asynchronous algorithm API integration
4. Advisory on UI design and development of complex UI elements
5. OAuth authentication integration
6. Deployment to cloud
7. Testing framework

Skills and Experience

A successful candidate will demonstrate these traits:

1. Experienced with clinical reporting, having worked within pharma or clinical research organisations
2. Strong R and R package development
3. CDSIC standard integration
4. Nice to have R Shiny
5. Worked directly with cloud infrastructure (ideally Azure)
6. Understand data modelling (not machine learning modelling)
7. Can work with customer stakeholders to understand business processes and workflows, and can design solutions to optimize processes via streamlining and automation
8. DevOps experience and familiarity with app release process
9. Familiar with agile delivery methods

Working at Ascent

At Ascent we promote a healthy work-life balance by offering flexibility in where you work. We also promote well-being and provide access to Well Being Coaches.

Your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we'll support your professional development with training and certification, with regular feedback and review. It is a fun, supportive and modern workplace where we really live by our company values of Empathy, Energy and Audacity! Ascent also offers a variety of benefits in each of our countries.

Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favourably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.

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For more details aboutlife at Ascent, check out our Life Page here.

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