Senior Developer

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About Zay Zoon At Zay Zoon, 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 allow employees to access their earned wages ahead of payday. With 74% of Zay Zoon customers reporting reduced financial stress, our solutions help lead to happier and more productive employees.

Zay Zoon was 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.

We 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 assertions
• Building, maintaining, and architecting core web and mobile applications
• Integrating with and maintaining third party tools and services
• Participating in our agile development process: sprint planning, story grooming and stand ups
• Extensive collaboration with other departments, particularly Product, Customer Care, and Finance, on product issues and when implementing new features
• Adherence to our SDLC and secure coding practices and environment
• Collaboration with development pod and team via pull request reviews, mentorship, knowledge sharing, pairing on complex stories
• Championing Zay Zoon’s mission to provide responsible financial products to an underserved generation of employees

• 4+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails work experience with production applications
• Experience solving issues around scale, concurrency, queuing, background processing, and efficient ingestion of third party data
• Mastery 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 functionality
• Strong 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 delivery
• 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)

• Data experience with BI tools (Metabase, Looker), ETL
• Competence with React or React Native
• Experience or interest in Dev Ops, particularly around cloud services and AWS
• Prior work with financial technology, accounting systems, or banking

Note:

We encourage applicants from all backgrounds. We evaluate candidates on their skills and potential, not just on whether they check every box.

• Permanently Remote:
  Work from a desk, a coffee shop, or in the great outdoors — our jobs are fully remote, forever
• Flexible Time Off:
  Our “You-do-You” time off program offers up to a maximum of 6 weeks vacation
• Instant Benefits:
  Full-time employees get medical, vision, and dental benefits from day one, including 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

Every application will be reviewed by our team. We are committed to giving each application the attention it deserves and will respond to every application. We invite you to apply with confidence and we’re here for you every step of the way.