About Ascendion

Ascendion is a fullservice digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for the world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

Job Title: Python Developer

Location: Toronto, ON

Responsibilities and Duties

• Support the entire application lifecycle (concept, design, test, release and support)
• Build and evolve modern apps to provide the best discovery experience for millions of users
• Create functional mobile applications while writing clean code
• Create highly secure mobile apps that are free of security vulnerabilities, promptly addressing any vulnerabilities found through ongoing code scans and penetration tests
• Design user interfaces with the ability to follow design guidelines
• Write great unit tests and end-to-end tests
• Help maintaining code quality, documentation and automation

Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field and 5+ years of work experience
• Firm understanding of OOP design principles.
• Extensive understanding of Android framework components and their respective life cycles
• Strong computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms and programming languages
• Experience working closely with product teams, designers, and other developers to create a truly delightful mobile experience
• Experience developing highly performant Kotlin code and view layouts and the ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks
• Current and detailed knowledge of the capabilities of different Android API levels
• A disciplined approach to development, testing, documentation and code structure in a team environment
• A familiarity with the Android tool ecosystem for development, testing, debugging, and performance benchmarking
• An excellent understanding of best practices for concurrency and threading
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs to connect Android applications to back-end services
• At least three years of engineering experience, a large portion of which in a team environment
• A constant desire to improve, learn more and take things higher
• Multiple years experience using Kotlin with MVVM and MVP architecture
• Good Understanding of code versioning tools (Git)

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $110,000 to $135,000 CAD annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

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