Senior Software Engineer, Wave
Observability
$160-179k
+ Bonus Structure
Financial services for small business owners
Be an early applicant
Financial services for small business owners
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-179k
+ Bonus Structure
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a future where small business owners can manage their finances fearlessly.
Role
Who you are
- Degree in Computer Science, or related
- 7+ years of experience in application development, platform engineering, or developer tooling
- High proficiency in Python; solid experience with Terraform
- Hands-on experience using Datadog for metrics, logging, tracing, dashboards, monitors, and alerts
- Experience with containerized and cloud-native environments (e.g., Kubernetes, Kafka, AWS, gRPC, Lambda)
- Proven ability to independently drive medium-to-large initiatives from design to delivery
- Comfortable making pragmatic tradeoffs to deliver reliable, scalable solutions
- A strong product mindset for internal tools
- Passion for reducing cognitive load, eliminating toil, and making observability easy to adopt by default
- Solid understanding of modern web applications and distributed systems
- Knowledge of how observability applies to high-throughput, highly available systems
- Clear written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to influence technical direction through design discussions, documentation, and hands-on implementation
- Comfortable partnering with product, platform, and infrastructure teams
What the job involves
- As a Senior Software Engineer II on the Observability team, you drive technical excellence by building automated solutions that transform decentralized tooling into a cohesive, scalable observability platform
- Using Python, Terraform, and Datadog, you build and evolve observability tooling, platform abstractions, and standards that help teams ship and operate services reliably
- Design and maintain Python tooling and Terraform modules that standardize Datadog configuration across services
- Eliminate manual setup by codifying monitors, dashboards, SLOs, and alerting patterns
- Improve consistency, repeatability, and reliability of observability across the organization
- Define and implement observability blueprints that integrate high‑fidelity metrics, logs, and traces into the development lifecycle
- Codify best practices so teams get out-of-the-box visibility without needing deep observability expertise
- Raise the baseline for service health, debuggability, and operational readiness
- Own critical parts of the Datadog platform configuration
- Improve data quality, signal-to-noise ratio, and alert reliability
- Partner with teams to adopt telemetry effectively while managing ingestion and alerting costs
- Upgrade and maintain tracers, agents, and shared observability libraries
- Ensure upgrades are automated, backwards-compatible, and minimally disruptive to product teams
- Reduce operational risk by improving rollout and validation processes
- Collaborate with Platform and Infrastructure teams to embed monitoring into systems such as Kafka, gRPC services, Kubernetes, and AWS-managed services
- Improve production visibility and reduce mean time to detect (MTTD) and resolve (MTTR) incidents
- Write clean, well-tested, and maintainable Python code and Terraform modules
- Participate in architecture and design reviews; provide thoughtful feedback in code reviews
- Take ownership of projects end-to-end, from design and implementation through production rollout and support
- Assist team members to solve problems and develop their own skills
- Foster a collaborative mindset within the team
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.
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