About Ascendion

Ascendion is a full-service 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 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.

About the Role:

Job Title :- Senior Python Developer

Location - Onsite in Downtown Toronto, ON

Roles and Responsibilities:

● Design and deliver high quality features and enhancements.

● Own the end-to-end delivery of large features within your team that could span 3+ months.

● Create technical design specifications in collaboration with other members of the engineering team.

● Provide estimates and actively participate in the sprint planning process.

● Produce highly secure solutions.

● Tune the performance of our distributed system to ensure they operate within our SLAs.

● Peer review other engineers’ code.

● Mentor other engineers to create good technical solutions to problems and ship code quickly to our customers.

Required Qualifications

● Experience with cloud computing and container-based distributed systems (Docker).

● Experience working with relational databases (preferably MySQL) and high proficiency with SQL.

● Understanding of higher level RDBMS concepts (locking and transaction model, isolation levels, deadlocks, etc.).

● Significant experience with at least one dynamically typed, object-oriented programming. language ( preference for Python).

● Great understanding of distributed systems and microservice architecture.

● Hands-on experience in using message brokers such as RabbitMQ.

● Deep understanding of restful API development.

● Demonstrated ability to work in a fast pace customer centric environment.

● 5+ years of experience in software development.

● Excellent communication and organization skills.

● Proven experience using code repositories such as GitHub.

● Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent.

● Familiar with *nix like environments.

● Build and integration experience with Payroll Providers and Time & Attendance platforms is highly desirable.

● Second round will be Onsite IV.

Desired Qualifications:

Candidates from below university will be preferable.

● University of Waterloo

● University of Waterloo University of Toronto

● University of Toronto The University of British Columbia

● The University of British Columbia McGill University

● McGill University

Location: Torrento onsite (Canada based candidate)

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between CAD$160,000 CAD – CAD$170,000k manually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 day of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]

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