Senior Developer

Senior Developer role at ZayZoonWho We AreWe 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 USDJoin us in shaping the future of employee financial wellness and building services that address the immediate needs of today's employees.About The RoleWe 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.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 assertionsBuilding, maintaining, and architecting core web and mobile applicationsIntegrating with and maintaining third party tools and servicesParticipating in our agile development process: sprint planning, story grooming and stand upsExtensive collaboration with other departments, particularly Product, Customer Care, and Finance, on product issues and when implementing new featuresAdherence to our SDLC and secure coding practises and environmentCollaboration with development pod and team via pull request reviews, mentorship, knowledge sharing, pairing on complex storiesChampioning ZayZoon’s mission to provide responsible financial products to an underserved generation of employeesYou Bring4+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails work experience with production applicationsExperience solving issues around scale, concurrency, queuing, background processing, and efficient ingestion of third party dataMastery 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, build clean when MVP becomes core functionalityStrong 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 deliveryExperience with agile development, sprints and scrum.All the usual tooling: Git, Github, Jira, editor of your choice.Bonus Points If You HaveData experience with BI tools (Metabase, Looker), ETLCompetence with React or React NativeExperience or interest in DevOps, particularly around cloud services and AWSPrior work with financial technology, accounting systems, or bankingResearch 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.Why You’ll Love Working At ZayZoonPermanently Remote: Work from a desk, a coffee shop, or in the great outdoors - our jobs are fully remote, foreverFlexible 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 vacationInstant 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 stipendPlus: Inclusive parental leave top-up, earned wage access, real time market data for salaries, a supportive culture for lifelong learners and moreWhat You Can Expect From UsEvery 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr