Team Lead, Development - Ruby on Rails
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ZayZoonFinTech
Canada and the U.S.Full-TimeLead
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- 4+ years building and shipping production applications with Ruby on Rails, Approximately 1 year of people management experience
- Required Skills
- AgileGitRuby on RailsSCRUMJiraGitHub
Requirements
- 4+ years building and shipping production applications with Ruby on Rails
- Approximately 1 year of people management experience as a Team Lead or Manager
- Experience including leading regular 1:1s, mentoring engineers, and supporting their growth and performance
- Proven experience leading developers in a scrum/agile environment
- Strong communicator who bridges business and technical teams and navigates conflict with clarity and empathy
- Deep grounding in fundamentals: SOLID principles, domain-driven design, performant code/queries, and robust unit + integration testing
- Ability to move fast when experimenting and build clean, scalable solutions when MVP becomes core
- Full-stack ownership mindset from backend to frontend, testing, demos, and delivery
- Comfortable with modern dev tooling (Git, GitHub, Jira)
Responsibilities
- Lead a pod of developers aligned to a specific persona or growth segment
- Conduct bi-weekly 1:1s, review weekly updates, resolve team issues, and manage time-off planning
- Run all agile ceremonies (stand-up, planning, retro, backlog refinement) and drive strong team collaboration
- Partner with the PM and cross-functional stakeholders to translate product needs into scalable, secure technical solutions
- Architect new features with other leads, mentor developers
- Advocate for addressing technical debt with clear, data-backed rationale
- Coordinate QA, ensure high-quality delivery
- Establish meaningful, data-driven KPIs (via Metabase) to track impact against company priorities
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