Manager of Data Engineering, Wave
Financial services for small business owners
Be an early applicant
Financial services for small business owners
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a future where small business owners can manage their finances fearlessly.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in building data pipelines and managing a secure, modern data stack, with at least 2-3 years in a leadership or team lead role
- Proven track record of successfully leading the design, development, and implementation of robust data pipelines, ETL processes, and data platforms
- Deep understanding of modern data stack components, including CDC streaming ingestion using tools like Meltano or similar for data ingestion workflows that support AI/ML workloads, and a curated data warehouse in Redshift, Snowflake, or DataBricks
- At least 3 years of experience guiding teams working with AWS cloud infrastructure, including Kafka (MSK), Spark / AWS Glue, and infrastructure as code (IaC) using Terraform
- Expertise in overseeing the implementation and management of multi-stage workflows using Airflow or similar orchestration systems to automate and orchestrate data processing pipelines
- Strong familiarity with data governance practices, including data quality, lineage, and privacy, as well as experience using cataloging tools to enhance discoverability and compliance
- Knowledge and practical experience with Athena, Redshift, or Sagemaker Feature Store to support analytical and machine learning workflows is a definite bonus
- Excellent leadership and communication skills with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across teams and levels of the organization
- Experience in financial technology and/or SaaS, or related industries preferred
What the job involves
- The Manager of Data Engineering will lead a team of talented data engineers, overseeing the design, development, and maintenance of our foundational data capabilities, architecture, and infrastructure
- This role is crucial for building robust, scalable data pipelines and platforms that support advanced analytics and business intelligence, ensuring our data systems are efficient, reliable, and aligned with organizational goals
- Lead & Mentor: Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of data engineers, fostering a collaborative and supportive environment
- Oversee Data Stack Development: Guide the team in designing, building, and deploying the components of a modern data stack, including CDC ingestion (using tools like Meltano or similar), a centralized Iceberg data lake, and a variety of batch, incremental, and stream-based pipelines
- Ensure Platform Stability & Scalability: Lead efforts to build and manage a fault-tolerant data platform that scales economically, balancing innovation with operational stability. This includes strategic oversight of maintaining legacy Python ELT scripts and accelerating the transition to dbt models in data warehouses like Redshift, Snowflake, or DataBricks
- Build a Long-Term Strategy: Contribute to the development and execution of data engineering roadmaps, ensuring alignment with the overall data and AI strategy and broader business objectives
- Drive Technical Excellence & Autonomy: Drive continuous improvement in data engineering practices, promoting best practices in coding, testing, and deployment. Cultivate an environment where engineers are self-motivated, can work autonomously, and thrive in ambiguous conditions by independently identifying opportunities to optimize pipelines and improve data workflows
- Foster Cross-Functional Data Collaboration: Collaborate closely with data scientists, analysts, product, and other engineering teams to understand data needs and integrate data solutions into various applications and decision-making processes. Ensure the team effectively supports other departments by reliably delivering data, analytics, and AI insights
- Ensure Data Quality & Governance: Implement and enforce data quality standards and best practices within data pipelines to ensure data integrity and reliability. Oversee the adherence to data governance policies, including data quality, lineage, and privacy, and ensure effective use of cataloging tools for discoverability and compliance
- Measure Performance: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for data engineering initiatives to measure efficiency, impact on business outcomes, and drive accountability
Our take
Over 90% of all businesses in North America are zero to five employee companies. These businesses are organising their finances either by paying an expensive accountant, or relying on traditional spreadsheets.
In response, Wave is democratising access to financial services software. While they are not the first to do this, they have taken the flourishing approach of giving away the invoicing and accounting software 100% for free.
The company instead makes money by embedding financial services products within the software. It's these payments and other revenue streams that the startup is now looking to expand to secure more revenue to scale.
While the company has had success so far with its tools, it will need to build a whole suite of products and services in order to compete with the accounting software giants like Xero.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 11 rounds)
Jun 2018
$3.3m
EARLY VC
May 2017
$32m
SERIES D
Total funding: $81.2m
Company benefits
- Work From Where You Work Best: We will always have a welcoming, energizing, and world-class office (in Toronto) with a space for you. Or, if you’re more comfortable working from home, the choice is yours
- We Care About Future You: You will stretch yourself and you will grow at Wave. You will also be supported on this journey with diverse learning experiences, educational allowances, mentorship, and so much more
- We Support the Full You: We make a serious investment in your health & wellness. When we think about benefits we think about body, mind, & soul and we take this stuff very seriously
- We Take Care of the Fundamentals: Fair compensation, all the office perks you’d want, and the various goodies you’d expect from a growing tech company. This is the obvious stuff, but we don’t want you to think we forgot!
Company HQ
Leslieville, Toronto, ON
Leadership
Zahir Khoja
(CEO, not Founder)Worked at Mastercard as EVP (Global Merchant Solutions and Partnerships) and held several Senior VP positions. Former Vintro Board Member and General Manager (North America) at Afterpay.
Share this job
View 5 more jobs at Wave