Staff Engineer
ZayZoon · Remote · Calgary · Orlando · Edmonton · Scottsdale · Pittsburgh · Toronto · Columbus · Vancouver · Winnipeg · Ottawa · Phoenix · Halifax · St. Louis · Moncton ·
COMPENSATION
$200k – $240k
Listed on the employer's job board (Ashby)
- Staff level position
- Fully remote (US/CA)
- Ruby on Rails expert
- AWS & Microservices
- AI-driven workflows
Join ZayZoon as a Staff Developer to shape the architecture of a financial empowerment platform. You will tackle difficult engineering problems, establish best practices, and guide the team in building secure, high-performance systems that reduce employee financial stress.
What you'll do
- Design scalable and secure software architectures aligned with business goals
- Implement best practices for object-oriented design and microservices
- Leverage AI tools to streamline development processes and reduce friction
- Enforce coding standards to improve code quality and maintainability
- Conduct code reviews to reduce bugs and enhance software performance
- Facilitate communication between engineering, product, and stakeholders
- Analyze application and warehouse data to solve performance issues
- Participate in agile ceremonies including planning and standups
What you'll need
- 6+ years of professional experience with Ruby on Rails
- Mastery of coding fundamentals and domain-driven design
- Experience with scale, concurrency, queuing, and background processing
- Strong security mindset including OWASP and SOC-2 processes
- Proficiency in deploying AWS resources like RDS and serverless
- Track record of using AI to simplify workflows and eliminate bottlenecks
- Strong data engineering skills including complex SQL and ETL
- Comfortable using data warehouse and analytics tooling for insights
Stack
- Ruby on Rails
- AWS
- RDS
- SQL
- Microservices
How you'll work
- Fully remote position
- Hiring across Canada and the United States
- Permanent remote work policy
What you get
- Up to 5 weeks of flexible vacation time
- Medical, vision, and dental benefits from day one
- Increased mental health coverage included
- Wellness stipend for personal use
- Inclusive parental leave top-up program
- Access to earned wage access services