Technical Lead, Development

at  ZayZoon

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.

Requirements

• 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)
• Is a master of fundamentals. Solid coding principles, domain-driven design, performant code and queries, unit and integration testing
• Has led projects involving scale, concurrency, queuing, background processing, and efficient ingestion of third party data
• Has a 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 spac

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

Requirements

• 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)
• Is a master of fundamentals. Solid coding principles, domain-driven design, performant code and queries, unit and integration testing
• Has led projects involving scale, concurrency, queuing, background processing, and efficient ingestion of third party data
• Has a 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