Director of Platform Engineering, Wave
Financial services for small business owners
Open for applications
Financial services for small business owners
201-500 employees
Open for applications
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a future where small business owners can manage their finances fearlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience managing multiple engineering teams in a Cloud infrastructure environment (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud)
- 10+ years of experience in software development with distributed production systems at scale
- Expertise building DevOps tooling and processes, with knowledge of site reliability, observability and product engineering
- Expertise with back-end software engineering, e.g., REST APIs, microservices, data processing, SQL and NoSQL database technologies
- Ability to facilitate technical decision-making, even outside your domain expertise
- Experience with modern software engineering processes such as Agile
- Nice to have: Experience implementing regulatory frameworks such as SOC, PCI, HIPAA
- Nice to have: Experience managing offshore teams
- Nice to have: Competency with Python
- Ideal candidate has experience working with SaaS and/or FinTech organizations
What the job involves
- The Director, Platform Engineering is responsible for the end-to-end health of the shared infrastructure and platform on which Wave products are built
- Working collaboratively with technology teams, this role will drive operations and automation to accelerate product delivery, and ensure consistent and stable services
- They will ensure that the technologies employed across environments are operated to provide a resilient, secure, and highly available platform for our products and services to run on, and that the overall strategy for platform delivery is defined, approved, and implemented aligned with Wave’s business goals
- The successful candidate will oversee the Platform Engineering teams (four teams including DevOps, Backend, Frontend and Mobile platform) and be responsible for managing the associated infrastructure and tooling costs. The ideal candidate thrives in a product and customer led organization
- Team Leadership and Development: Mentor and grow a team of engineers and managers, fostering a collaborative, empathetic, and high-performing work environment. Focus on building a healthy team culture that aligns with the needs of users
- Ownership of Core Engineering Functions: Own observability, CI/CD, core infrastructure abstractions, and shared tooling
- Platform Engineering Excellence: Optimize and simplify platform tooling and enable ease of use of services (APIs) for developers. Define and continuously improve core metrics for platform engineering
- Cross Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with engineering leaders to prioritize feature development and engineering investments. Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure platform engineering initiatives are aligned with broader business goals
- Vision and Strategy: Develop and drive the long-term strategic vision for platform engineering, ensuring the team is well-positioned to meet future challenges and opportunities
- Innovation: Stay current on engineering best practices and trends. Lead the team in continuously refining strategies, processes, and tools to improve efficiency, reliability, and innovation within platform engineering
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
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-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 values
- Believe in small business owners
- Reimagine the possible, together
- Do fewer things, simply and beautifully
- Care deeply and challenge directly
- Achieve extraordinary results
Company HQ
Leslieville, Toronto, ON
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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.
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