ZayZoon
FinTech
StaffEngineer
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“Staff Engineer at ZayZoon. Skills: Ruby on Rails, DDD, microservices, AI, SQL. Design and maintain scalable, secure software architectures aligned with business goals, resulting in robust and reliable systems. Introduce and implement best practices around OO, DDD, and microservices where appropriate. Use AI to streamline processes, reduce friction, and give time back to developers for the work that matters. Implement and enforce coding standards and best practices, driving measurable improvement”
What You'll Achieve.
Save 10 million hardworking employees 10 billion dollars.
Industry & Context.
system design; architectural questions; concurrency; background processing; debugging
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What They're Looking For.
Must Have
6+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails. A mastery of fundamentals: solid coding principles, domain-driven design, performant code and queries, unit and integration testing. Experience leading projects involving scale, concurrency, queuing, background processing, and efficient ingestion of third-party data. A security mindset: OWASP, secure development, and SOC-2 processes. Experience deploying resources outside of app dev (AWS, RDS, queues, serverless). Track record of using AI to simplify workflows, eliminate bottlenecks, and shift focus toward meaningful work. data engineering skills: complex SQL queries, optimization, ETL. Comfortable working across data warehouse and analytics tooling to surface insights, track down errors, and inform performance improvements.
What You'll Do.
Design and maintain scalable, secure software architectures aligned with business goals, resulting in robust and reliable systems.
Introduce and implement best practices around OO, DDD, and microservices where appropriate.
Use AI to streamline processes, reduce friction, and give time back to developers for the work that matters.
Implement and enforce coding standards and best practices, driving measurable improvements in code quality and maintainability.
Conduct regular code reviews with feedback that meaningfully reduces bug counts and improves software performance.
Facilitate clear communication between development teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to keep projects aligned.
Use data as your north star - leverage application data, third-party data, and our data warehouse to analyze and solve problems around both product impact and performance.
Participate in our agile development process: sprint planning, story grooming, and standups.
Champion our SDLC and secure coding practices across everything you ship.
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Facilitate clear communication between development teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to keep projects aligned.
Communication Scope
communication
Process & Methodology
agile development, sprint planning, story grooming, standups
Full Job Description
WHO WE ARE: At ZayZoon, 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 allows employees to access their earned wages ahead of payday. With 74% https://www.zayzoon.com/the-state-of-employee-financial-wellnessof 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 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/deloitte-canada-unveils-2025-technology-fast-50-tm-program-winners-as-tech-resilience-powers-cross-country-innovation-886643713.html, 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 https://www.deloitte.com/content/dam/assets-zone3/us/en/docs/services/deloitte-private/2025/us-2025-technology-fast-500-rankings.pdf, and top-10 growth companies in Canada by CIX awards https://calgaryherald.com/business/local-business/parker-zayzoon-partners-provide-earned-wage-access. Our recent funding extension has raised our Series B funding round to nearly $50 million USD https://calgaryherald.com/business/local-business/parker-zayzoon-partners-provide-earned-wage-access 🎉 Join us in shaping the future of employee financial wellness and building services that address the immediate needs of today's employees. You might see a few cities listed, but no need to be in any of them! We’re fully remote and hire across Canada and the U.S. About the role: We've built a financial empowerment platform that helps businesses of all sizes make a real impact on employee financial wellness, and the systems you architect here directly power that mission. We're looking for a Staff Developer who genuinely cares about building things well. You'll take on the hardest technical problems, champion best practices, and bridge
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