Team Lead – Development

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% of 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 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.

ZayZoon is looking for a Team Lead, 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.

The team lead is a vital member with three primary mandates:

1. Act as scrum master and coach for the pod’s agile processes

2. Mentor, manage, and empower team members

3. Contribute to the technical work of the team as both a contributor and a key code reviewer

Your impact:

• Lead a team of developers focused on a particular persona (ex: employee, employer) or segment (ex: ACV, LTV) of our business growth

• Run all team ceremonies (stand-up, planning, retrospective, backlog refinement) and engage developer team members in collaboration in these events

• Collaborate with the team PM to translate what we need into how to build it

• Coordinate with other leads to architect net new features, with an emphasis on scalability and security

• Provide general technical mentorship for team members

• Advocate for addressing technical debt with supporting evidence of the value of committing effort to this

• Review team member work (PRs) as the accountable senior reviewer as per our SDLC

• Coordinate quality assurance of developed features with the QA team

• Perform 1:1s with team members on a bi-weekly cadence and review their weekly updates to identify any issues or needs

• Work to the best of your ability to resolve team member issues, including performance shortfalls, issues with other members of the team, etc, while escalating serious issues to the Dev Manager and VP Dev

• Manage team member time-off, ensuring adequate notice is given and that scheduled time off is staggered between team members as much as possible

• Work with other department stakeholders along with PM to understand high level product requirements

• Establish meaningful team KPIs that are data-driven and viewable within our current reporting system (Metabase), which demonstrate team performance and progress made toward company priorities

You bring:

• 4+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails experience with production applications

• Experience leading a team of developers in a Scrum/agile environment

• Recent Certified Scrum Master (CSM) certification or equivalent credentials

• Strong communication skills to translate between business and technical nomenclature and coordinate asks between product and developers on your team

• Skills in resolving conflicts between team members

• A 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 and build clean when MVP becomes core functionality

• A 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

• Experienced with standard developer tooling: Git, GitHub, Jira, editor of your choice. (Plus the ability to search for good animated gifs when merging pull requests)

Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of listed criteria, women and other marginalized folks tend to only apply when they check every box. Think you have what it takes, but not sure you check every box? Apply to the role anyways. We’d love to talk and determine together whether you could be a great fit!

Why you’ll love working at ZayZoon:

• 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

• Plus: Inclusive parental leave top-up, earned wage access, real time market data for salaries, a supportive culture for lifelong learners and more

What you can expect from us:

Every application will be reviewed by our team - we're committed to giving each application the attention it deserves because we know how important this step is for you. We want to make sure you're always in the loop and will respond to every application.

So go ahead and hit that apply button with confidence, knowing that we’re here for you every step of the way! We can't wait to hear from you.

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