About the role

Intermediate Developer for ZayZoon focusing on Ruby-on-Rails solutions and innovative new services for employee financial wellness. Solving tough problems to create impactful employee experiences.

Responsibilities

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 practises and environment
Collaboration with development pod and team via pull request reviews, mentorship, knowledge sharing, pairing on complex stories
Championing ZayZoon’s mission to provide responsible financial products to an underserved generation of employees

2+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails 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).

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