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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.

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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.


About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with experience in building highly scalable solutions based on a microservices architecture. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be working with a highly skilled cross functional team to enhance our core banking platform.

Job Title

Python Developer

Key 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.

Minimum 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.

Desired 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.

Location

Toronto, M5V3L9

Position Information

Salary and Other Compensation: The annual [salary/hourly rate] for this position is between $70-75 per hour.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] [life insurance] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [paid parking/public transportation] [xx days/hours of paid time off] [xx days/hours of paid sick and safe time] [xx days/hours of paid vacation time] [xx weeks of paid parental leave] [x paid holidays annually] [add others as needed- include all material benefits available to the position]

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Preferred Skills

Python
  • SQL Python
  • SQL
  • RabbitMQ

Job details

Job ID

331500

Job Requirements

Python Developer

Location

Toronto, ONTARIO, US

Recruiter

Shrilekha

Email

shrilekha.akolkar@ascendion.com

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.

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