Senior Security Engineer, Wave
$157.9-185.8k
Or local equivalent, plus a generous equity.
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Financial services for underbanked communities
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Financial services for underbanked communities
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$157.9-185.8k
Or local equivalent, plus a generous equity.
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make Africa the first cashless continent.
Role
Who you are
- You can work remotely from anywhere (between UTC -5 and +4) with reliable internet access
- Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries
- Minimum of 7-8 years of professional experience with a minimum of 3-5 years of it spent in a security-related role
- Strong Experience with Python
- Fluent English
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced security engineer who’s independent, excited about getting things done, and ready to hit the ground running
- You'll primarily be responsible for our application security, working with our product teams to work on new systems to enhance our security posture
- Our customers trust us with their money, and you’ll be at the forefront of making sure we retain that trust!
- This broadly scoped role will allow you to get your hands on many different types of security projects, from direct application security to helping our infrastructure team think about security for our databases
- As we integrate AI-powered agents into our engineering and operations workflows, you'll help define and enforce the guardrails around how we use them safely
- This includes securing agentic tooling against prompt injection, excessive permissions, and data exfiltration — and building the policies and technical controls to govern AI usage across the company
- Some experience with common industry certifications like ISO-27001 and PCI-DSS would be beneficial, although you won’t be expected to run or oversee audits
- Design our agentic SIEM/SecOps pipelines to evaluate and tune AI-driven triage, alerting, and response automation
- Secure our MCP integrations against prompt injection, tool misuse, and credential exposure
- Tune and maintain code security review agents tailored to Wave's codebase, threat model, and regulatory environment
- Develop internal AI governance standards covering acceptable use, data handling, and audit requirements for LLM-powered tools
- Centralise application-level login and permissions enforcement including privileged access management
- Rework our approach to secrets management with ephemeral secrets and tighter access scopes
- Security review of our public-facing APIs
Our take
Because of things like high fees and a lack of local branches, about half of the adults in Africa still do not have a bank account. Although this is an improvement on past estimates, the continent is still significantly underbanked - which is what Wave helps to combat.
Wave addresses this banking gap with technology, offering a straightforward and cost-effective tool accessible via mobile. The impact has been substantial. A 2021 GSMA report suggested over 500 million mobile money accounts were registered in Africa, facilitating transactions valued at nearly $500 billion.
Wave has already established its presence in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Gambia and Mali, using steady investment to expand its footprint and reach unicorn status. It also continues to enhance product development and engineering efforts, as well as shore up business operations. Despite challenger companies emerging, Wave has a considerable head start on the competition.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2022
$10m
LATE VC
Sep 2021
$200m
SERIES A
Total funding: $210.2m
Company benefits
- Subsidised health insurance for you and your dependents (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
- Retirement contributions (vary from country to country)
- Yearly travel to one of our African operating countries
Company HQ
Mermoz Sacre-coeur, Dakar, Dakar Region
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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