Engineering Manager, 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 of professional engineering experience
- 1+ years of experience as a manager
- Experience working on internal platform-style teams
- Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery. Past experience in it, or a desire to learn more about these ideas will help you succeed here
- Experience supporting production systems
- Experience with cloud-based infrastructure
- Experience in leading technical projects from inception to delivery
- Occasional requirement to be on-call outside of standard hours
What the job involves
- Wave is powered by several key technologies
- Our toolkit is primarily Python and Django on the service layer, with some Ruby and Golang as well
- GraphQL and REST power our APIs, and our web/mobile front-ends are React and ReactNative with Typescript
- We expect software developers to have proficiency in one or more of these areas
- You will be expected to be able to cross technical domains and contribute to both the back-end and front-end as needs arise
- Your Work Will Matter: Engineering managers at Wave are responsible to their teams and their stakeholders
- You will need to maintain solid relationships with Product Managers, Designers, and members of the Product Compliance team
- You will work to keep team morale and productivity high, providing a viable career path to everyone on your team
- You will evaluate, coach and promote your team members, learning from other Engineering managers at Wave as you hone your own people management skills
- We Are a Community: Wave is about the size of a small neighbourhood. It is possible to get to know everyone on a personal basis
- If you’re trying to solve a hard problem that has roots in some other part of the company, odds are pretty good that you’ll find someone close by who can help you out
- You Will be Stretched: We’re big on transparency and we know Wave isn’t for everyone
- However, if you’re ready to flex your creativity, excel at your craft, fuel your curiosity, and thrive in a dynamic environment, we’re confident you’ll love being a Waver
- Leading a team of Engineers responsible for powering Wave’s software platform, and our public and internal APIs
- Responsible for the team’s prioritization and planning and ultimately its pace and quality of software delivery. By
- Managing an agile process that determines the team's priorities and task list
- Working with the teams' engineers and outside stakeholders decides the technical strategy for the team to deliver on its goals
- Communicating timelines and plans to senior leadership and working to adjust these in accordance with business needs
- Leading project scoping, planning, and sequencing of execution
- Setting standards and leading by example in showing how to deliver quality at a pace
- Helping to drive continuous improvement across the team
- Responsible for the performance and growth of their team members. By
- Developing growth plans for team members and helping create the needed opportunities to fulfill them
- Providing coaching and mentorship through 1:1s, training or creating mentorship relationships with other senior Wavers
- Driving improvements across Engineering to improve our reliability and reduce downtime
- Split time between hands-on engineering work and engineering management as needed
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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