Senior iOS Engineer, Wave

$118.6-172.9k

iOS

Swift

SwiftUI

Senior level

Remote from Canada, Europe, UK, US

More information about location

Financial services for underbanked communities

Job no longer available

Financial services for underbanked communities

1001+ employees

FintechB2CPaymentsMobile

Job no longer available

$118.6-172.9k

iOS

Swift

SwiftUI

Senior level

Remote from Canada, Europe, UK, US

More information about location

1001+ employees

FintechB2CPaymentsMobile

Company mission

To make Africa the first cashless continent.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with minimum 2 years of it spent building iOS applications
Experience using Swift and SwiftUI (professional or personal projects are fine)
Native or fluent English

Desirable

Reflexively ask yourself, “is this code the best way to make my users happy?”
Push through hard problems without giving up
Enjoy helping other engineers on your team to improve their frontend skills
Are not afraid to take on complicated systems
Are excited to learn to do some amount of backend work where it is closely tied to larger frontend projects
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 use your iOS expertise to create user-friendly and maintainable applications and to help the rest of your team do the same
Enabling people to use their Wave app to pay for products in stores all over Senegal
Allowing our users to cheaply send money to Wave users in other countries
Building a way for people to easily move money between their bank account and their Wave account

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

Top investors

9% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.6)

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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