Junior Software Engineer, Wave
$88.9-104.6k
+Equity
More information about location
Financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money
Be an early applicant
Financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$88.9-104.6k
+Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make Africa the first cashless continent.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a junior engineer who is eager to grow their skills, good at asking for help when they’re stuck, and a strong communicator and Independent
- Reliable Internet access
- 1 year of professional experience as a software engineer, with some understanding of python
- Alternatively being an active contributor in an open source project
- Fluency in English. French is a plus
- Reflexively ask yourself, is this code the best way to make my users happy?
- Are excited to understand the inner workings of the tools you use deeply
- Want to learn to solve hard problems and aren’t afraid to ask for help when you get stuck
- Are excited to learn about complex systems
- Can communicate clearly with colleagues who work, speak and think differently
- Work to make things easier for the next engineer who will touch your code
- Always try to improve as a programmer and colleague
What the job involves
- You'll be responsible for building and improving the ways people pay with Wave. You'll own every step of the process, from understanding the problem to shipping your solution to users to helping the customer support team resolve problems
- Be directly embedded in a Product team focusing on online payments through Wave
- Interacting directly with Wave partners to support and create integrations with Wave
- Contribute to a full-stack codebase. We have web portals built on typescript/react, backend in Python, and mobile apps using Kotlin & Swift
- Take lots of ownership and accountability in implementing improvements. We'd love to see you grow into being able to be handed a problem, and for you to devise the design, implementation, and follow-up after shipping
- Work with our Postgres database. Analyzing our data models, and helping generate analytics and insights to help your Product Manager make better decisions
- Our to-do list changes constantly, but here are some recent projects:
- Allowing people to pay their electricity bills with Wave by integrating with Senelec, the national electrical utility
- Building an app for business owners to pay their employees' salaries using Wave
- Writing reliability systems that make Wave robust by automatically detecting outages with partners, and toggling features with Wave to maximize good UX
- You'll join an autonomous, cross-functional team focused on a single area of Wave's product. Each team is led by a product manager and an Engineering Manager
- We organize projects to give you as much ownership as possible. Typically, you'll be responsible for a feature or improvement end-to-end, from design through deployment. As a junior, you’ll likely pair with a more senior engineer frequently
Application process
- Fill out the form below, and upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role
- We review applications frequently and recommend that you apply to the role that most closely aligns with your skills, experience and career goals
Our take
Founders Drew Durbin and Lincoln Quirk founded Sendwave in 204 to allow remittances between North America, Europe, and select African and Asian nations,. The venture gained traction and was acquired by WorldRemit in 2020 for $500M in cash and stock. During this journey, Durbin and Quirk initiated the development of Wve, a user-friendly mobile money service that champions simplicity and eliminates account fees.
Africa grapples with a lack of accessible and economical financial services, leaving around 57% of its population unbanked due to exorbitant charges, inconvenient branches, and limited card usage. Wave addresses this gap with innovative technology, offering a straightforward and cost-effective tool accessible to everyone via their mobile. The impact has been substantial; in 2021, a GSMA report indicated 562M registered mobile money accounts in Africa, facilitating transactions valued at US$495B.
Wave has already established its presence in Senegal, the Ivory Coast, and Gambia. Future plans involve expanding to regulation-friendly countries like Uganda and channelling investments to enhance product development, business operations, and engineering efforts.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Mar 2022
$10m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$200m
SERIES A
Total funding: $210m
Company benefits
- Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
- 6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
- Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries
- Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries
Company values
- We’re egolessly mission driven
- We focus ruthlessly on the most important thing
- We’re embarrassingly honest to stay aligned and move quickly
- We don’t wait – we live our fullest lives now
- We maximize our rate of learning
Company HQ
Mermoz Sacre-coeur, Dakar, Dakar Region
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Leadership
Drew Durbin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founder and CEO at Sendwave (International Remittance).
Lincoln Quirk
(Co-Founder)Previously co-founder and CTO at Newsbrane, Engineer at Demiurge Studios and co-founder of Sendwave (International Remittance).
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