Senior Product Engineer, Wave
$167-178.2k
+ Equity Package
Financial services for underbanked communities
Open for applications
Financial services for underbanked communities
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$167-178.2k
+ Equity Package
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make Africa the first cashless continent.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer
- Fluent in English, bilingual in French is a big bonus
- Successful candidates must be willing to travel to one of our operating locations at least once per year for a minimum of 6 consecutive days
- Reflexively ask yourself, “is this code the best way to make my users happy?”
- Want to learn to solve hard problems and aren’t afraid to ask for help when you get stuck
- Are excited to learn about complex systems
- Can communicate clearly with colleagues who work, speak and think differently
- Work to make things easier for the next engineer who will touch your code
- Always try to improve as a programmer and colleague
- Are excited to deeply understand the inner workings of the tools you use
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineer, you will be an integral part of one of our product teams
- We are seeking an individual who excels in delivering high-quality individual contributor work, guided by comprehensive design docs, passion for UX, user feedback, and data analysis
- In this role, you will be expected to elevate standards and exemplify best practices within your team
- Strong communication skills and a proactive, driven mindset are crucial for success, as you will frequently collaborate with colleagues across various departments and roles to ensure project progression and overcome challenges
- You'll join an autonomous, cross-functional team focused on a single area of Wave's product
- Each team is led by a Product Manager and an Engineering Manager or Tech Lead
- We organize projects to give you as much ownership as possible
- Typically, you'll be responsible for a feature or improvement end-to-end, from design through deployment
- Enabling people to use their Wave app to pay for products in stores
- Allowing people to pay their electricity bills with Wave by integrating with electrical utility companies
- Building an app for business owners to pay their employees' salaries using Wave
- Allowing people to pay for their transportation on taxis, trains & buses
- Collaborate with Product to design and build features and tooling for both external and internal users
- Investigate user feedback and resolve system bugs
- Drive technical design discussions and direction
- Actively pair with others and perform code reviews
- Mentor engineers and foster their growth
- Hold project debriefs and help us improve our project development cycle
Our take
Because of things like high fees and a lack of local branches, about half of the adults in Africa still do not have a bank account. Although this is an improvement on past estimates, the continent is still significantly underbanked - which is what Wave helps to combat.
Wave addresses this banking gap with technology, offering a straightforward and cost-effective tool accessible via mobile. The impact has been substantial. A 2021 GSMA report suggested over 500 million mobile money accounts were registered in Africa, facilitating transactions valued at nearly $500 billion.
Wave has already established its presence in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Gambia and Mali, using steady investment to expand its footprint and reach unicorn status. It also continues to enhance product development and engineering efforts, as well as shore up business operations. Despite challenger companies emerging, Wave has a considerable head start on the competition.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$10m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$200m
SERIES A
Total funding: $210m
Company benefits
- Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents (vary from country to country)
- 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
- Retirement contributions (vary from country to country)
- Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries
Company HQ
Mermoz Sacre-coeur, Dakar, Dakar Region
Leadership
Drew Durbin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founder and CEO at Sendwave (International Remittance).
Lincoln Quirk
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founder and CTO at Newsbrane, Engineer at Demiurge Studios and co-founder of Sendwave (International Remittance).
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