Staff Engineer

ZayZoon • Calgary, AB

1d • $200,000 - $240,000 • Remote

About The Position

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 2025 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, 2025 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. We're fully remote and hire across Canada and the U.S. 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 the gap between where our systems are today and where they need to be as we scale. If you're the kind of person who gets pulled toward hard architectural questions, enjoys mentoring, and reaches for data when something needs solving, this is a role where that curiosity gets put to good use every day.

Requirements

• 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

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

Benefits

• Permanently Remote
• Flexible Time Off: "You-do-You" time off program with a maximum of 6 weeks vacation
• Instant Benefits: medical, vision, and dental benefits from their very first day
• Increased mental health coverage
• Wellness stipend
• Inclusive parental leave top-up
• Earned wage access
• Real time market data for salaries
• A supportive culture for lifelong learners

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed