Technical Lead, Development

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.

About the Role

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.

• 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

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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