Engineering Manager, Wave
Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
React Native
Python
Django
GraphQL
REST API
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Canada
Financial services for small business owners
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Financial services for small business owners
201-500 employees
FintechB2BPaymentsFinancial ServicesAccounting
Be an early applicant
Salary not provided
React
TypeScript
React Native
Python
Django
GraphQL
REST API
Senior and Expert level
Remote from Canada
201-500 employees
FintechB2BPaymentsFinancial ServicesAccounting
Company mission
To create a future where small business owners can manage their finances fearlessly.
Role
Who you are
- This requires curiosity, openness to new ideas and perspectives, and a genuine interest in what makes software products tick
- 7+ years of professional engineering experience
- 2+ years of experience in a people management role
- Deep experience supporting and maintaining production systems, with a strong focus on reliability, performance, and rapid incident response
- Hands-on experience with cloud-based infrastructure, with a strong understanding of AWS services
- Proven ability to lead complex technical projects end-to-end — from initial planning and stakeholder alignment through to execution, delivery, and post-launch support
- Collaborative leader who builds trust, breaks down silos, and creates a culture of teamwork and shared success across departments
- Foster a growth mindset by championing continuous learning and empowering team members to grow, take initiative, and reach their full potential
- Champion a customer-first mindset by ensuring engineering priorities and deliverables align with user needs, driving impactful solutions that enhance the overall customer experience
- Occasional requirement to be on-call outside of standard hours
What the job involves
- As a manager in the engineering team at Wave, you’ll lead an incredible team of engineers to build high-quality systems at scale
- This means being involved in the research, design, and organizational and maintenance practices behind our wide range of applications, which are relied upon by tens of thousands of small business owners
- Most of our engineers are full stack — you won’t find many who specialize in just one thing here. Your team will be willing and able to dive into different technologies and stacks to get the job done - and so should you!
- Wave is powered by several key technologies. Our toolkit is primarily Python and Django on the service layer. GraphQL and REST power our APIs, and our web/mobile front-ends are React and ReactNative with Typescript
- We expect software developers to have proficiency in one or more of these areas. You will be expected to be able to cross technical domains and align the team towards the best solution while collaborating with other engineering teams
- Engineering managers at Wave are responsible to their teams and their stakeholders. You will need to maintain solid relationships with Product Managers, Designers, and members of the Product Compliance team
- You will work to keep team morale and productivity high, providing a viable career path to everyone on your team. You will evaluate, coach and promote your team members, learning from and collaborating with other Engineering managers and Engineering leaders at Wave
- Wave is about the size of a small neighbourhood. It is possible to get to know everyone on a personal basis. 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
- 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
- Leading a team of Engineers responsible for powering Wave’s software platform, and our public and internal APIs
- Responsible for the team’s prioritization and planning and ultimately its pace and quality of software delivery. By
- Managing an agile process that determines the team's priorities and task list. Working with the teams' engineers and outside stakeholders to decide the technical strategy for the team to deliver on its goals
- Communicating timelines and plans to senior leadership and working to adjust these in accordance with business. needsLeading project scoping, planning, and sequencing of executionSetting standards and leading by example in showing how to deliver quality at a pace
- Driving continuous improvement across the team
- Leading code reviews, and improving engineering practices on the team by aligning them with Wave practices
- Driving continuous improvement across the teamLeading code reviews, and improving engineering practices on the team by aligning them with Wave practices
- Responsible for the performance and growth of their team members. By
- Developing growth plans for team members and helping create the needed opportunities to fulfill them
- Providing feedback, coaching and mentorship through 1:1s, training or creating mentorship relationships with other senior Wavers
- Driving improvements across Engineering to improve our reliability and reduce downtime
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
Top investors
-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, 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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