Software Engineer

How you'll help us achieve it

Wave is now the largest financial institution in Senegal, with over 7 million users. And, we’re still in the early days of our product roadmap and potential impact on people’s everyday lives.

We’re looking for a junior engineer who is eager to grow their skills, good at asking for help when they’re stuck, and a strong communicator and Independent. You'll be responsible for building and improving the ways people pay with Wave. You'll own every step of the process, from understanding the problem to shipping your solution to users to helping the customer support team resolve problems.

In this role you'll;

• Be directly embedded in a Product team focusing on online payments through Wave.
• Interacting directly with Wave partners to support and create integrations with Wave.
• Contribute to a full-stack codebase. We have web portals built on typescript/react, backend in Python, and mobile apps using Kotlin & Swift.
• Take lots of ownership and accountability in implementing improvements. We'd love to see you grow into being able to be handed a problem, and for you to devise the design, implementation, and follow-up after shipping.
• Work with our Postgres database. Analyzing our data models, and helping generate analytics and insights to help your Product Manager make better decisions.

 Our to-do list changes constantly, but here are some recent projects:

• Allowing people to pay their electricity bills with Wave by integrating with Senelec, the national electrical utility.
• Building an app for business owners to pay their employees' salaries using Wave.
• Writing reliability systems that make Wave robust by automatically detecting outages with partners, and toggling features with Wave to maximize good UX.

Key Details

• You can work remotely from anywhere (between UTC -5 and +4) with reliable Internet access.
• Wave covers travel once per year to one of our operating countries in Africa, as well as a yearly stipend of $800 to meet with coworkers nearby to your home location. 
• Our salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula. For this role, depending on your experience, we offer a salary range of up to $104,600 USD (paid in your local currency equivalent) plus a generous equity package.
• Major benefits:
• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country).
• 6 months of 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.

Requirements

• 1 year of professional experience as a software engineer, with some understanding of python. 
  • Alternatively being an active contributor in an open source project.
• Fluency in English. French is a plus.

You might be a good fit if you

• Reflexively ask yourself, is this code the best way to make my users happy?
• Are excited to understand the inner workings of the tools you use deeply.
• Want to learn to solve hard problems and aren’t afraid to ask for help when you get stuck. 
• Are excited to learn about complex systems.
• Can communicate clearly with colleagues who work, speak and think differently.
• Work to make things easier for the next engineer who will touch your code.
• Always try to improve as a programmer and colleague.

About engineering at Wave

• You'll join an autonomous, cross-functional team focused on a single area of Wave's product. Each team is led by a product manager and an Engineering Manager. 
• We organize projects to give you as much ownership as possible. Typically, you'll be responsible for a feature or improvement end-to-end, from design through deployment. As a junior, you’ll likely pair with a more senior engineer frequently. 
• Our stack (note that we will train you on any of these you don't need any prior experience except for python):
• backend: Python 3 (+ mypy)
• API layer: GraphQL
• android frontend: Kotlin/Jetpack
• iOS frontend: Swift/SwiftUI
• web frontend: TypeScript/React
• database: Postgres
• infrastructure: GCP / Terraform
• orchestration: Kubernetes