Technical Lead, Development

2 months ago


Halifax, Canada ZayZoon Full time

**Canada /** Calgary, Alberta /** Edmonton, Alberta /** Halifax, Nova Scotia /** Toronto, Ontario**

**Development - Development /**

**Fulltime /**

**Remote**

**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

**Technical Lead, Development**

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.

**YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- 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.

**TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS ROLE, YOU NEED TO BE SOMEONE WHO**:

- 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

**WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TABLE**:

- 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, ELT, ETL
- Strong data analysis skills: data warehouse tooling (Snowflake, Prefect, etc), BI tooling (Tableau, Metabase, Looker, etc)
- Bonus points if you have: Experience with B2B SaaS products and integrations (Hubspot, Salesforce, etc) or prior experience in the FinTech/Payroll space
- #LI-REMOTE

**ANYTHING ELSE YOU MIGHT NEED TO KNOW**

**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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