Senior Developer

ZayZoon group; Moncton; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm is seeking a Senior Developer experienced with Ruby on Rails to build core web and mobile applications. This role offers an opportunity to creatively solve engineering issues and collaborate closely with various departments. Candidates should have over 4 years of Ruby on Rails experience, strong SQL skills, and a full-stack mentality. This position is fully remote across Canada.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails experience with production applications.
• Strong SQL and data analysis skills.
• Experience with agile development, sprints, and scrum.

Responsibilities

• Creative problem solving for key development and engineering issues.
• Building, maintaining, and architecting core web and mobile applications.
• Extensive collaboration with other departments on product issues.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

SQL

Agile development

Data analysis

Full stack mentality

Tools

Git

Github

Jira

Job description

WHO WE ARE

At ZayZoon, we are on a mission to save ten million hardworking employees ten billion dollars. We’ve created a financial empowerment platform that helps businesses of all sizes make a big impact on employee financial wellness.

We offer a variety of financial wellness services like earned wage access, that allows employees to access their earned wages ahead of payday. With 74% of ZayZoon customers reporting reduced financial stress, we know our solutions help lead to happier and more productive employees.

We are fully remote across Canada & the US. ZayZoon was also recognized for its growth in the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and top-10 growth companies in Canada by CIX awards . Further, our recent funding extension has raised our Series B funding round to nearly $50 million USD .

We are looking for a Senior Developer experienced with Ruby-on-Rails to help us solve tough problems and think up innovative new solutions, based on software development best practices and an urge to be the best you can be. You will work on customer- and admin-facing products, third-party integrations both canned and bespoke, and help architect the system toward greater flexibility, reliability, and scale.

Responsibilities :

• Creative problem solving for key development and engineering issues, including full understanding of the root cause with the ability to leverage data to back up assertions
• Building, maintaining, and architecting core web and mobile applications
• Integrating with and maintaining third party tools and services
• Participating in our agile development process : sprint planning, story grooming and stand ups
• Extensive collaboration with other departments, particularly Product, Customer Care, and Finance, on product issues and when implementing new features
• Adherence to our SDLC and secure coding practices and environment
• Collaboration with development pod and team via pull request reviews, mentorship, knowledge sharing, pairing on complex stories
• Championing ZayZoon’s mission to provide responsible financial products to an underserved generation of employees

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE :

4+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails experience with production applications

Experience solving issues around scale, concurrency, queuing, background processing, and efficient ingestion of third party data

Mastery of fundamentals : SOLID coding principles, domain-driven design, performant code and queries, unit and integration testing

Ability to build quickly when we need to experiment, build cleanly when MVP becomes core functionality

Strong SQL and data analysis skills and an eagerness to dig into data as part of problem solving

Full stack mentality : Every dev owns their features in full, meaning all the way from back end to front end code, automated and real life testing, demos, and delivery

Experience with agile development, sprints and scrum

All the usual tooling : Git, Github, Jira, editor of your choice (Plus the ability to search for good animated gifs when merging pull requests)

Bonus points if you have :

Data experience with BI tools (Metabase, Looker), ETL

Competence with React or React Native

Experience or interest in DevOps, particularly around cloud services and AWS

Prior work with financial technology, accounting systems, or banking

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US

Every application will be reviewed by our team - we're committed to giving each application the attention it deserves because we know how important this step is for you. We want to make sure you're always in the loop and will respond to every application.

So go ahead and hit that apply button with confidence, knowing that we’re here for you every step of the way! We can't wait to hear from you.

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