Staff Engineer

ZayZoon

11d•Remote

About The Position

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