DevOps Software Engineer, Wave
12 Month Contract
Financial services for small business owners
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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
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience in a DevOps, Software Engineer, or Infrastructure role, with a strong focus on cloud environments
- Cloud Platforms: Proficiency with AWS, including hands-on experience with services like EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, Config, and VPCS
- Containerisation & Orchestration: Solid experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Karpenter, and Helm, including deploying and managing containerised applications in production environments
- Infrastructure as Code (IAC): Expertise with tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation for automating infrastructure provisioning and management
- CI/CD Pipelines: Proven experience designing, implementing, maintaining, and optimising CI/CD pipelines using tools like Circleci, GitHub Actions, and Argocd
- Database Management: Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and familiarity with database migration, optimization, and backup strategies within cloud environments
- Monitoring & Logging: Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog) and logging systems (e.g., SumoLogic, Sentry) to ensure system reliability and performance
- Security Best Practices: Strong understanding of security principles, including least privilege policies, network security, encryption, and data protection in a cloud environment
- Cost Efficiency & Optimization: Proven ability to monitor, analyze, and reduce cloud spend through right-sizing, automation, reserved instance planning, and cost-aware architecture - maintaining a balance between performance, scalability, and financial efficiency
- Familiarity with Git and version control best practices
- Solid scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar)
- Understanding of network protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS)
- Problem-Solving: Ability to quickly identify and resolve technical issues, minimising downtime and ensuring seamless operations
- Collaboration: Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross- functional teams, including developers and product managers
- Adaptability: Willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to changing technical landscapes in a fast-paced environment
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, Kubernetes
- Certified Administrator (CKA), or other relevant certifications
What the job involves
- DevOps Engineers at Wave bridge the gap between operations and product development, empowering teams to make informed infrastructure decisions while enabling rapid, reliable, and secure software delivery that adheres to industry best practices. Our team focuses on solving infrastructure challenges, maintaining essential tools, and driving our DevOps enablement program. Following a successful infrastructure modernisation, we’re advancing cloud-based developer environments to deliver a fully cloud-native experience
- Champion Infrastructure Reliability: Ensure the robustness, security, and scalability of our infrastructure by proactively identifying and resolving potential issues before they impact our services
- Drive Continuous Improvement: Collaborate with product teams to refine and optimise deployment pipelines, reducing friction and increasing deployment frequency while maintaining a high level of security and quality standards
- Innovate in Cloud-Based Development: Empower teams with scalable, secure, and on- demand development environments that accelerate delivery and enhance developer productivity
- Optimise Performance and Cost Efficiency: Analyse and improve the performance of our systems, ensuring our services remain fast, secure, and cost-effective as we scale while continuously seeking opportunities to optimise cloud spending
- Contribute to Strategic Projects: Participate in and sometimes lead critical projects, such as system migrations or architecture redesigns, that shape the future of our infrastructure and development practices
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.
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