[Remote] Staff Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ZayZoon is a company focused on financial empowerment, aiming to help employees reduce financial stress through services like earned wage access. They are seeking a Staff Developer to design and maintain scalable software architectures, implement best practices, and mentor team members as they work to enhance employee financial wellness.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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
• Strong 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

Benefits

• CA$23K Bonus
• $23K Bonus
• Permanently Remote: Work from a desk, a coffee shop, or in the great outdoors - our jobs are fully remote, forever
• Flexible 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 vacation
• Instant 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 stipend
• Inclusive parental leave top-up
• Earned wage access
• Real time market data for salaries
• A supportive culture for lifelong learners

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