ZayZoon is hiring a
Team Lead

Summary

The job is for a Team Lead, Developer with Ruby-on-Rails experience at ZayZoon, a fast-growing Financial Technology and HR company. The role involves leading a team of developers, acting as scrum master, mentoring team members, contributing to technical work, and working with other department stakeholders.

Requirements

• Has a mastery of fundamentals. Solid coding principles, domain-driven design, performant code and queries, unit and integration testing
• Is able to build quick when we need to experiment and build clean when MVP becomes core functionality
• Has a 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
• 2+ years of hands-on Ruby on Rails experience with production applications
• Prior project management or process experience
• Prior experience mentoring other developers
• Experience solving issues around scale, concurrency, queuing, background processing, and efficient ingestion of third party data
• Strong SQL and data analysis skills and an eagerness to dig into data as part of problem solving
• Experience with agile development, sprints and scrum

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of developers focused on a particular persona or segment of our business growth
• Run team meetings such as standups, plannings, and retros with a PM
• Work alongside other leads to architect net new features, with an emphasis on scalability and security
• Provide general technical mentorship for team members
• Review team member work (PRs) as the designated senior reviewer as per our SDLC
• Perform 1:1s with team members on a bi-weekly cadence and review their weekly updates to identify any issues or needs
• Work to the best of your ability to resolve team member issues, including performance shortfalls, issues with other members of the team, etc, while escalating serious issues to the VP, Development
• Work with other department stakeholders along with PM to understand high level product requirements
• Establish a reasonable level of team KPIs that are data-driven and viewable within our current reporting system (metabase), which demonstrate team performance and progress made toward company priorities
• Manage team member time off, ensuring adequate notice is given and that scheduled time off is staggered between team members as much as possible

Preferred Qualifications

All the usual tooling: Git, Github, Jira, editor of your choice. (Plus the ability to search for good animated gifs when merging pull requests)

Benefits

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