Senior Software Engineer, Wave
Ruby
Financial services for small business owners
Job no longer available
Financial services for small business owners
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a future where small business owners can manage their finances fearlessly.
Role
Who you are
- The Payroll team is looking for engineers with full-stack development experience using Ruby on Rails
- We want teammates who are borderline obsessive about testing and quality of workmanship
- Experience with web application and distributed system development is a must
- Background in Payroll or Financial systems would be an asset
- Our APIs are GraphQL and REST powered by services written in Python and Django, as well as Rails
- We expect software developers to have enough familiarity with API development to be able to collaborate with back-end developers to devise solutions to product challenges, and to contribute to code on the API layer when needed
- 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
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer on the Payroll team, you will join a critical team supporting a key SaaS product in the Wave suite
- Leveraging your background in Ruby on Rails and (ideally) your knowledge of Payroll systems, you will work with some fantastic engineers to solve tough problems in delivering world-class financial products to our customers at scale
- You will be exposed to a wide variety of technologies and help investigate new ones as we are constantly striving to keep our technology choices up to date
- You will help maintain the current bar we have but will hopefully go on to raise it to the next level
- Your Work Will Matter: Every engineer at Wave is tasked with solving meaty, meaningful challenges for a really important end-user - our small business owners
- The code you write will make a difference, guaranteed
- 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
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.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 10 more jobs at Wave