Team Lead, Development

4 weeks ago


Calgary, Canada ZayZoon Full time

WHO WE ARE

Our goal is to save ten-million hard-working employees ten-billion dollars. We are a values driven, well-funded, and fast-growing Financial Technology and HR company. We want to empower small and midsize businesses with financial tools that make them the place where people want to work.

We’ve created a financial empowerment platform that helps small but mighty HR teams make a big impact on employee financial wellness. ZayZoon is quickly becoming the employee financial wellness super-app that employees can’t live without, and employers are clamoring to offer to help attract and retain talent.

We are growing fast and have been recognized for rapid growth in the 2023 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Canadian Technology Fast 50 program You can read more about it here.

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:

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

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Lead a team of developers focused on a particular persona or segment of our business growth (ex: ACV, LTV)
  • Run team meetings such as standups, plannings, and retros with a PM
  • Work alongside other leads to architect net new features, with an emphasis on scalability and security
  • Provide general technical mentorship for team members
  • Review team member work (PRs) as the designated senior reviewer as per our SDLC
  • Perform 1:1s with team members on a bi-weekly cadence and review their weekly updates to identify any issues or needs
  • Work to the best of your ability to resolve team member issues, including performance shortfalls, issues with other members of the team, etc., while escalating serious issues to the VP, Development
  • Work with other department stakeholders along with PM to understand high level product requirements
  • Establish a reasonable level of team KPIs that are data-driven and viewable within our current reporting system (metabase), which demonstrate team performance and progress made toward company priorities
  • Manage team member time off, ensuring adequate notice is given and that scheduled time off is staggered between team members as much as possible
TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU NEED TO BE SOMEONE WHO:
  • Has a mastery of fundamentals. Solid coding principles, domain-driven design, performant code and queries, unit and integration testing.
  • Is able to build quick when we need to experiment and build clean when MVP becomes core functionality.
  • Has 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.
WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE:
  • 2+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails experience with production applications.
  • Prior project management or process experience.
  • Prior experience mentoring other developers.
  • Experience solving issues around scale, concurrency, queuing, background processing, and efficient ingestion of third party data.
  • Strong SQL and data analysis skills and an eagerness to dig into data as part of problem solving.
  • 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)

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ANYTHING ELSE YOU MIGHT NEED TO KNOW

Candidates must be located in Canada to be considered.

We are organized as a remote team, as such we are looking for candidates who can work effectively remotely. You must have access to a secure high speed internet connection and a secure workspace to ensure security of private information. This role is available on a permanently remote basis.

Please be aware that as part of our final hiring process, we will conduct reference calls with previous managers and possibly other individuals. Additionally, due to the nature of our business, a criminal record check and a basic security clearance will also be required.

We wish to thank all qualified applicants for their interest in joining our team

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