Senior Developer, ZayZoon
On-demand wage platform for SMBs
Job no longer available
On-demand wage platform for SMBs
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
101-200 employees
Company mission
To provide a platform that enables workers to access their earned wages ahead of the traditional pay cycle.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ 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)
Desirable
- Data experience with BI tools (Metabase, Looker), ETL
- Competence with React or React Native
- Experience or interest in DevOps, particularly around cloud services and AWS
- Prior work with financial technology, accounting systems, or banking
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior 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
- You will work on customer- and admin-facing products, third-party integrations both canned and bespoke, and help architect the system toward greater flexibility, reliability, and scale
- 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
Our take
ZayZoon addresses the financial strain faced by workers due to unforeseen expenses in the gap between paychecks. By providing earned wage access (EWA), the fintech startup offers employees the option to access a portion of their pay ahead of schedule, aiming to curb reliance on high-interest loans.
ZayZoon's platform works at no cost to the employer, but charges workers a $5 fee for a withdrawal. This does raise concerns over whether this could exacerbate financial challenges for low-income workers, although compared to the interest on payday loans this is still an extremely attractive option.
With recent funding, the company plans to accelerate growth initiatives and navigate increasing regulatory scrutiny. Despite concerns about these regulatory challenges, ZayZoon remains optimistic and dedicated to empowering workers and assisting businesses in managing financial obstacles.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2024
$15m
SERIES B
Sep 2023
$27.6m
SERIES B
Total funding: $73.7m
Company values
- Hustle: Don’t work harder—work smarter. Own everything you do, and take it to the next level
- Trust: Be the person others want to lean on when the going gets tough. Don't be afraid to lean on others when you need help
- People Driven: Practice empathy in service of others and aspire to make a positive impact
- Mastery: Adopt a growth mindset—especially when things get hard. Like they say, no pain, no gain
Company HQ
Downtown Commercial, Calgary, AB
Articles
Leadership
Darcy Tuer
(Co-Founder & CEO)Founded their first Software company, Halo Networks in 2000 while studying Electrical Engineering at the University of Alberta. They also co-founded Spira Data Corp where they served as the President for over 10 years.
Tate Hackert
(Co-Founder)An economics graduate with education from the University of Victoria, Canada, and the City University of Hong Kong. Now they are the Owner of Long Calgary.
Jamie Ha
(Co-Founder & CFO)Former Investment Banker with over 14 years experience, most recently serving as a Managing Director at FirstEnergy Capital.
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