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We’ve created a financial empowerment platform that helps businesses of all sizes make a big impact on employee financial wellness.\nWe offer a variety of financial wellness services, like earned wage access, that allows employees to access their earned wages ahead of payday. With74% 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.\nYou might see a few cities listed, but no need to be in any of them! 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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.\nYour impact:\nDesign and maintain scalable, secure software architectures aligned with business goals, resulting in robust and reliable systems\n\nIntroduce and implement best practices around OO, DDD, and microservices where appropriate\n\nUse AI to streamline processes, reduce friction, and give time back to developers for the work that matters\n\nImplement and enforce coding standards and best practices, driving measurable improvements in code quality and maintainability\n\nConduct regular code reviews with feedback that meaningfully reduces bug counts and improves software performance\n\nFacilitate clear communication between development teams, product managers, and other stakeholders to keep projects aligned\n\nUse 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\n\nParticipate in our agile development process: sprint planning, story grooming, and standups\n\nChampion our SDLC and secure coding practices across everything you ship\n\nYou bring:\n6+ years of experience with Ruby on Rails\n\nA mastery of fundamentals: solid coding principles, domain-driven design, performant code and queries, unit and integration testing\n\nExperience leading projects involving scale, concurrency, queuing, background processing, and efficient ingestion of third-party data\n\nA security mindset: OWASP, secure development, and SOC-2 processes\n\nExperience deploying resources outside of app dev (AWS, RDS, queues, serverless)\n\nTrack record of using AI to simplify workflows, eliminate bottlenecks, and shift focus toward meaningful work\n\nStrong data engineering skills: complex SQL queries, optimization, ETL\n\nComfortable working across data warehouse and analytics tooling to surface insights, track down errors, and inform performance improvements\n\nResearch shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of listed criteria, women and other marginalized folks tend to only apply when they check every box. Think you have what it takes, but not sure you check every box? Apply to the role anyways. We’d love to talk and determine together whether you could be a great fit!\nWhy you’ll love working at ZayZoon:\nPermanently Remote: Work from a desk, a coffee shop, or in the great outdoors - our jobs are fully remote, forever\n\nFlexible 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 5 weeks vacation\n\nInstant 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\n\nPlus: Inclusive parental leave top-up, earned wage access, real time market data for salaries, a supportive culture for lifelong learners and more\n\nWhat you can expect from us:\nEvery application will be reviewed by our team - we're committed to giving each application the attention it deserves because we know how important this step is for you. 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