Backend Platform Software Engineer, Wave
$101-113k
+ Bonus
Financial services for small business owners
Job no longer available
Financial services for small business owners
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$101-113k
+ Bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create a future where small business owners can manage their finances fearlessly.
Role
Who you are
- Experience: 3+ years of professional experience in backend engineering with a proven track record of delivering results with increasing autonomy
- Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience
- Backend Development Experience: Professional background in building and maintaining reusable software libraries and frameworks, specifically using Python and containerization tools
- Technical Knowledge: Proficiency in inter-service communication methods and patterns, including synchronous and asynchronous systems such as Kafka(Avro), SQS, gRPC(Protobuf)
- Infrastructure Systems: Technical competency in how backend code interacts with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS-native services
- Library and API Design: Ability to develop developer-first tools and a thorough knowledge of GraphQL gateways to simplify complex integrations while maintaining technical capability
- Analytical Problem Solving: Experience performing independent research to evaluate the trade-offs of different technical approaches
- Communication: Exceptional written and oral communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical trade-offs
What the job involves
- You will design, build, and maintain Wave’s backend ecosystem and reusable software stack
- As a Software Engineer II on the backend platform team, you define the Golden Path for frameworks and communication
- You go beyond immediate tasks to understand underlying business objectives, delivering high-quality functionality while consistently improving the surrounding codebase and creating technical clarity amidst ambiguity
- Standardize Core Components: Maintain a single, recommended pattern for web frameworks, container images, and data gateways to ensure consistency and security across the organization
- Streamline System Communication: Architect and refine frameworks used for both real-time and background messaging to ensure data flows efficiently and reliably between services
- Build Developer-Centric Wrappers: Create sophisticated libraries that wrap common components, making them easy to integrate while preserving the configurability and debug-ability developers require
- Deliver and Enhance Code: Execute required functionality while proactively identifying and improving surrounding code to reduce technical debt and strengthen the overall ecosystem
- Evaluate Technical Approaches: Propose multiple solutions to complex problems, performing the necessary research to weigh pros and cons before committing to an implementation
- Resolve Technical Ambiguity: Drive clarity for assigned tasks by performing independent research and outreach, delivering high-quality results with minimal support on well-defined objectives
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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