Senior Software Engineer, Wave
Full Stack
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Financial services for small business owners
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Financial services for small business owners
201-500 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a future where small business owners can manage their finances fearlessly.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of professional experience with some combination of Python, Ruby, JavaScript and/or other computer language
- Interest in working on technical projects from inception to delivery
- Able to operate and monitor highly available systems in production, or willing to quickly learn how to do so
- Pride in writing testable, modular, maintainable, simple, and well-documented code
- Experience with web application and/or distributed systems development
- Feeling right at home in the terminal
- Strong written and oral communication skills
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer, you will join one of the many cross-functional engineering teams to work alongside Product, Design and other developers to bring your engineering skill to bear on exciting business challenges
- You will work with some fantastic engineers to solve tough problems in delivering world-class financial products to our customers at scale
- You will work with a wide variety of technologies and help investigate new ones as we are constantly striving to keep our technology choices up to date
- As an engineering team, we deeply care about being the best in our craft - Performance, Reliability, Reusability, Code Quality, Test Coverage, and Observability. You will help maintain the current bar we have but will hopefully go on to raise it to the next level
- Writing clear, concise, elegant, and well-tested code in Python, Ruby, and/or JavaScript
- Working as part of a small, agile, integrated product team that’s focused on continual improvement of their skills and helping each other learn new things
- Learning new technical skills with tools or frameworks needed to execute on tasksDelivering code that goes beyond what is strictly assigned.Requiring little support to deliver on well-defined tasks
- Substantial impact on the entire team’s pace and quality of deliverables;Taking complete ownership of major initiatives or complex tasks from definition to delivery
- By taking responsibility for monitoring or alerts needed to support and maintain new initiatives post-launch
- Having a substantial impact on the entire team’s pace and quality of deliverables
- Assisting other team members to solve problems and develop their own skills
- Taking complete ownership of major initiatives or complex tasks from definition to delivery
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
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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: $81.1m
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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