Principal Engineer, 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
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience in software architecture and system design helping scale systems and processes efficiently
- Passionate and knowledgeable about engineering excellence and have the ability to educate others through documentation, design decisions and mentorship
- Experience leading through influence; partnering across multiple teams in a matrixed organization
- Proven experience in a senior architectural role, with a strong background in software development and systems integration
- Deep knowledge of cloud computing, microservices architecture, and modern development practices
- Strong leadership, communication, and collaboration skills
- Experience with agile methodologies and project management
What the job involves
- As a member of the technology leadership team and reporting into the CTO, the Principal Engineer is responsible for leading our architectural strategy and ensuring the alignment of technology solutions with business goals
- The role involves collaborating with stakeholders to define technology roadmaps, developing innovative architectural solutions, and ensuring alignment with industry standards and best practices
- You will work to deliver exciting products and provide architectural leadership and vision for projects, and investigate new ideas as we help small businesses find their thrive
- Define and lead architectural strategy across the technology organization: Develop and maintain the architectural vision across multiple technology teams, ensuring security, scalability/reliability, and performance. Help to shape a technology strategy that will enable Wave to achieve our objectives as a business
- Enable Wave’s business strategy and company objectives; engage with stakeholders to create scalable, robust and secure technical designs; balancing objectives with optimal performance of applications. Accelerate customer, business, and technology outcomes by identifying and driving key opportunities across Wave
- Foster cross-team collaboration and drive strategic technology direction: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Engineering, Product Management, Security, and Data and AI to ensure seamless integration of architectural solutions
- Innovate and future proof our business: Drive the technical strategy and build multi-year (3+) roadmaps with hands-on leadership in architecture and implementation. Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, evaluating their potential impact on Wave’s architectural landscape
- Hands-on engineering leadership; Create and review architectural designs, specifications, and documentation for various projects, ensuring high quality and adherence to industry best practices. Solve technical problems of the highest scope, complexity, and ambiguity for the business. Teach, mentor, grow, and provide advice to other domain experts, individual contributors, across several teams within Technology
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
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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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