Technical Lead, Development

ZayZoon; Calgary; Remote; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Tech Lead to drive technical excellence and scalability in their innovative financial wellness platform. In this role, you will tackle complex challenges, implement best practices, and mentor a talented team. As a fully remote position, you will enjoy the flexibility to work from anywhere while contributing to a mission that empowers employees financially. Join a dynamic team that values your expertise and offers generous time off, instant benefits, and a supportive culture for continuous learning. If you're ready to make a significant impact, this opportunity is for you!

Benefits

Permanently Remote

Flexible Time Off

Instant Benefits

Inclusive parental leave top-up

Wellness stipend

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails and strong data engineering skills.
• Experience with AWS, APM tools, and security best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable software architectures aligned with business goals.
• Conduct regular code reviews and facilitate effective communication between teams.

Skills

Ruby on Rails

AWS

DataDog

SQL

ETL

Tableau

Domain-driven design

OWASP

Tools

Sentry

Snowflake

Prefect

Metabase

Looker

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.

About the role:

The Tech Lead is a senior member of the Technology team focused on complex problems, best practices, operational issues (scalability, performance), and technical mentorship. Their mandate is to drive the technical side of the business forward and ensure that we can scale as we grow.

• Design and maintain scalable and secure software architectures aligned with business goals, resulting in robust and reliable software systems.

• Introduce and implement best practices around OO, DDD, and microservices where appropriate.

• Navigate the space between app dev and infrastructure, including use of third party tooling (APMs, Observability platforms) to optimize performance and provide real, quantitative benchmarks for Apdex and load capacity.

• Implement and enforce coding standards and best practices, leading to a measurable improvement in code quality and maintainability.

• Conduct regular code reviews, providing feedback that results in reduced bug counts and improved software performance.

• Facilitate effective communication between development teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to ensure project alignment.

• Leverage application data, third party data, and our data warehouse to analyze and solve problems around both product impact and performance.

You bring:

• 6+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails.

• Experience deploying resources outside of app dev (AWS, RDS, queues, serverless).

• Experience configuring and analyzing APM tools (DataDog, Sentry, observability platforms).

• Strong data engineering skills: complex SQL queries, optimization, ETL.

• Strong data analysis skills: data warehouse tooling (Snowflake, Prefect, etc), BI tooling (Tableau, Metabase, Looker, etc).

• Solid coding principles, domain-driven design, performant code and queries, unit and integration testing.

• Experience leading projects involving scale, concurrency, queuing, background processing, and efficient ingestion of third party data.

• Security mindset: OWASP, secure development, SOC-2 processes.

• Bonus points if you have experience with B2B SaaS products and integrations (Hubspot, Salesforce, etc) or prior experience in the FinTech/Payroll space.

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 anyway. 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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