Staff Engineer, Wave
$180-188k
+ Bonus Structure
Financial services for small business owners
Be an early applicant
Financial services for small business owners
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$180-188k
+ Bonus Structure
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a future where small business owners can manage their finances fearlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years experience as an application developer or equivalent experience on a developer tools team
- Mastery of some combination of Python, Ruby, JavaScript and/or other computer languages
- Experience with observability and alerting tools such as Datadog and PagerDuty
- Experience in developer education by producing written documentation
- Are knowledgeable about what makes a great developer experience and have the ability to improve it by configuring or creating tools and scripts
- Have experience in Terraform configuration
- Have experience in Kafka configuration for applications
- Understand container orchestration from an application developers point of view
- Have experience across entire ecosystems from Local dev all the way through to Production
- Enjoy continually learning and using new technologies such as Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS Lambda
- Are passionate and knowledgeable about engineering excellence and have the ability to educate others through written documentation, example code and presentations
- Occasional requirement to be on-call outside of standard hours
What the job involves
- Staff Engineers work in cross-functional teams alongside Engineers, Product Managers and Designers to bring their engineering skills to bear on exciting business challenges
- They work collaboratively to solve tough problems in delivering world-class financial products to our customers at scale with a wide variety of technologies and help investigate new ones as we are constantly striving to keep our technology choices up to date
- While Staff Engineers still work with their own team, significant time may be spent on projects that encompass a larger group
- You'll be writing clear, concise, elegant, and well-tested code in Python, Ruby, and/or JavaScript
- Working as part of a small, agile, integrated product team that’s focused on continual improvement of their skills and helping each other learn new things
- Learning new technical skills with tools or frameworks needed to execute on tasks
- Delivering code that goes beyond what is strictly assigned
- Requiring little support to deliver on well-defined tasks
- Substantial impact on the entire team’s pace and quality of deliverables
- Taking complete ownership of major initiatives or complex tasks from definition to delivery
- By taking responsibility for monitoring or alerts needed to support and maintain new initiatives post-launch
- Having a substantial impact on the entire team’s pace and quality of deliverables
- Providing a level of expertise and skill that has an impact on the quality of software delivery outside their immediate team, while still being primarily focused on the delivery of their own team
- Substantially improves the quality of software delivery for all of Engineering
- By working with other leaders at Wave to understand larger business needs and initiating projects to meet
- By resolving technical disagreements among multiple teams in the service of Wave-wide objectives
- By contributing to the vision and strategy for Engineering at Wave
- By introducing new technology to Wave’s supported set, understanding how to assess the pros and cons of such, and engaging the necessary stakeholders to drive the decision
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 it is not the first to do this, it has 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)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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