Staff Software Engineer

Staff Software Engineer
WHO WE ARE
We enable growing platforms to build payroll. Our programmatic payroll solution and infrastructure powers the payroll stack for large-scale employers, such as gig economy and staffing companies, and prominent fintech, HR, and back office solutions. We not only help our customers manage their compliance, but also have the immense responsibility of ensuring accurate and timely payments to hundreds of thousands to millions of Americans.
As a Series A company, backed by top investors such as Y Combinator and Spark Capital (Plaid, Marqeta, Coinbase, Anthropic), we are pioneers in the space of embedded payroll and aim to revolutionize the way people use and think about payroll systems.
Our mission is to revolutionize how people build payment and payroll services by providing robust, seamless, and forward-thinking technology and we'd love to learn more about you and how you could be a fit for our growing team!
ABOUT THE ROLE
All our engineers here at Zeal are full-stack engineers, but we take concerted efforts on aligning with your background, qualifications, and interests and we can carve out a role focused on exemplifying your strengths.
We are not only expanding our product and features, but also investing in scalability as we bring on more volume onto our platform. As a Staff Engineer on the team you will be working very closely with the CTO on larger scale projects to help uplift the team, improve our security posture, implement best scalability practices, and serve as a technical leader on a tight-knit, fast-moving engineering team.
Our engineering team is super into Typescript and we're built on React/Redux, Node, MongoDB, and AWS and all split up into microservices. Locally we use yarn 3, esbuild. You will get to work directly with our founders and other heads of departments from Stripe, Square, Microsoft, Apple, Brex, and others... which will only increase your business acumen and provide lots of opportunities to get closer to our product vision and strengthen our team's cross-department collaboration.
SOME THINGS YOU MAY BE WORKING ON

• Participate in Zeal's security program and up-level Zeal's security posture.
• Work on our DevOps program and DevX. You will help maintain and improve our CI/CD process.
• Lead improvements to our tax management stack, streamlining payroll migration process, and thinking about how to scale our services + infrastructure to handle large enterprise customers.
• This role focuses on building and coding in our codebase, designing tooling and process for the team, and you will be expected to play a major role in product and technical strategy.
• You will be maintaining our Technical Roadmap, setting technical direction for the team, and serve as a technical advisor to our Product team.
• Ensure our product holds a high level of quality

YOU HAVE

• 8+ years of professional Software Engineering experience
• You're comfortable coding in full-stack Javascript (React, Typescript, Node.js)
• You have a strong interest in DevOps and Security
• You've built products end-to-end, working closely with product and design teams
• You have experience mentoring junior developers and are excited to act as a Tech Lead
• You are an empathetic developer and value working in a diverse and collaborative environment
• A desire to ship high quality code and build something people want

SELLING POINTS

• Get to work directly with end-users, close to design and product, and have a say on how we build and ship our products
• Opportunities for career advancement and mentorship with a strong, empathetic, and collaborative Eng team
• Never a dull moment with chill people who care about quality code, helping out others, and working hard under a shared vision as we grow and scale the company!

OUR CULTURE
We are a tight-knit, inclusive community that is into: music , cocktails , pets , and above all else ~ high-quality espresso ☕ but more importantly we value championing for our staff to bring their authentic true selves to work and aim to provide a fun and collaborative work environment for everyone!
OUR BENEFITS

• 100% health coverage premium paid by the company; vision, dental, and 80% for dependents with HSA options
• ➕ Life Insurance, Accidental Insurance, and access to free EAP services
• Generous salary and equity for all staff
• 10-year equity option exercise window for all employees
• 401k option; helping you save for the future
• Commuters Stipend for all SF-based employees
• Yearly Professional Development Stipend to use on courses, books, events, etc
• Monthly Happy Hours, Team Lunches, Boba breaks, and lots of Events (board games, trivia, bowling, VR, golfing, hiking)
• Company Wide Offsite every year (2023 - Coronado Island 2022 - Sonoma and Napa )
• Awesome Zeal Swag - did you know a group of Zebra is called a Zeal, that's why we have a Zebra mascot!

OUR COMPENSATION & PHILOSOPHY
The range for this role is between $175,000-$195,000 for California-based candidates
Check out our Job Leveling, Salary, and Equity Guide to learn more!
OUR INTERVIEW PROCESS
We are a fast-paced startup, so you may expect to hear back from us soon. While this is our process for most of our roles, sometimes stages are subject to change from time to time. But we will definitely notify you of the change ahead of time. If you have any questions about the role, our process, or anything else before applying, feel free to reach out to one of our team members at anshul@zeal.com
Intro Call: 30 min
Hiring Manager Chat: 30 min
Take Home Project
Final Interview
Step 1: Technical with Senior Eng and/or CTO (60 min)
Step 2: Cultural Chat (30 min)
Step 3: Leadership Chat (30 min) **
If you are curious to know more about our culture, check out our Notion Culture Doc: https://www.notion.so/zeal-api/Do-remarkable-things-at-Zeal-0d9af42e7dd2498391e1ccfde42c0137
Our company (Puzzl Group, aka Zeal) is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.