Wave Mobile Money is hiring a
Engineering Manager

Summary

Join our team as we make Africa the first cashless continent! As a Senior Engineering Manager, you'll lead our infrastructure teams in ensuring Wave's backend stays reliable and scalable. You'll prioritize work, support teammates, design processes, collaborate with other teams, and attract exceptional engineers to the team.

Requirements

• At least two years of experience as a manager supporting infrastructure teams
• Willingness to travel to Africa once per year for ~6 days (Wave covers all costs)
• Experience working in Cloud (preferably GCP) and Data Center infrastructure
• Experience, or an interest in networks, particularly telephony
• People management experience: coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, and career development
• Relevant project management experience: specifically prioritization, tracking schedules and deadlines, and communicating across team/org boundaries
• Experience managing process design: running a smooth on-call rotation, incident response, postmortems, load testing, capacity planning, etc
• Hiring experience: You can predict staffing needs, design interview loops, evaluate candidates, and assist with closing candidates at the offer stage

Responsibilities

• Prioritize the teams' work in collaboration with senior engineers, the Director of Platform, and local partners
• Support and mentor your teammates to become more effective engineers and colleagues
• Design processes (e.g. incident response, postmortem review) that allow the team to operate smoothly
• Collaborate with other product and platform teams to implement reliability improvements across Wave
• Attract and hire exceptional engineers to the team

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