Team Lead, Development

ZayZoon; Calgary; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A financial empowerment platform is seeking a Team Lead, Developer experienced in Ruby on Rails. The role involves acting as a scrum master, mentoring a development team, and contributing to technical work. This position is fully remote, allows flexible time off, and offers comprehensive employee benefits from day one. Ideal candidates will have strong communication skills and a mastery of coding principles.

Benefits

Flexible Time Off

Medical, vision, and dental benefits

Inclusive parental leave top-up

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails experience with production applications.
• Experience leading a team of developers in a Scrum/agile environment.
• Recent Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification or equivalent credentials.
• Strong communication skills to translate between business and technical nomenclature.
• Skills in resolving conflicts between team members.
• Mastery of fundamentals including domain-driven design and unit testing.
• Ability to adapt code from MVP to core functionality.

Responsibilities

• Act as scrum master and coach for the pod’s agile processes.
• Mentor, manage, and empower team members.
• Contribute to the technical work of the team as a key code reviewer.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

Team leadership

Scrum methodology

Communication skills

Conflict resolution

SOLID coding principles

Full stack development

Tools

Git

GitHub

Jira

Job description

Who we are:

At ZayZoon, we are on a mission to save 10 million hardworking employees 10 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. ZayZoon was also recognized for its growth in the 2024 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and top-10 growth companies in Canada by CIX awards. Our recent funding extension has raised our Series B funding round to nearly $50 million USD 🎉

Join us in shaping the future of employee financial wellness and building services that address the immediate needs of today\'s employees.

ZayZoon is looking for a Team Lead, 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.

The team lead is a vital member with three primary mandates:

• Act as scrum master and coach for the pod’s agile processes
• Mentor, manage, and empower team members
• Contribute to the technical work of the team as both a contributor and a key code reviewer

You bring:

• 4+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails experience with production applications
• Experience leading a team of developers in a Scrum/agile environment
• Recent Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification or equivalent credentials
• Strong communication skills to translate between business and technical nomenclature and coordinate asks between product and developers on your team
• Skills in resolving conflicts between team members
• A mastery of fundamentals. SOLID coding principles, domain-driven design, performant code and queries, unit and integration testing
• Ability to build quick when we need to experiment and build clean when MVP becomes core functionality
• A 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
• Experienced with standard developer tooling: Git, GitHub, Jira, editor of your choice. (Plus the ability to search for good animated gifs when merging pull requests)

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of listed criteria, women and other marginalized folks tend to only apply when they check every box. Think you have what it takes, but not sure you check every box? Apply to the role anyways. We’d love to talk and determine together whether you could be a great fit!

Why you’ll love working at ZayZoon:

• Permanently Remote: Work from a desk, a coffee shop, or in the great outdoors - our jobs are fully remote, forever
• Flexible Time Off: Whether it\'s a longer vacation to explore new horizons, a series of short breaks for regular rejuvenation, or stepping away for a new level of mastery in a skillset – our You-do-You time off program caters to the diverse and evolving lifestyles of our team with a maximum of 6 weeks vacation
• Instant Benefits: All full-time employees get access to medical, vision, and dental benefits from their very first day including increased mental health coverage and a wellness stipend
• Plus: Inclusive parental leave top-up, earned wage access, real time market data for salaries, a supportive culture for lifelong learners and more

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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