Engineering Manager

Summary

Join Wave, a company revolutionizing financial services in Africa, as an Engineering Manager leading the Prod Finance and Compliance team. You will manage a team of up to six engineers, building and maintaining systems for compliance, including KYC, AML, and more. Collaborate with product managers, mentor your team, and ensure alignment between technical approaches and business needs. This remote position offers flexible work arrangements, competitive salary (up to $166,900 USD), generous equity, and comprehensive benefits. Wave is committed to creating a positive and collaborative team culture. The role requires experience managing software engineering teams, compliance experience, and proficiency in backend development and SQL.

Requirements

• Fluent in English
• At least one year of experience managing a software engineering team
• Experience working on a compliance focussed team at some point in your career
• You have demonstrable people management experience: coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, career development
• You’re comfortable with backend server development and SQL
• You have experience managing the day to day work of an engineering team: facilitating meetings, assigning work, identifying when projects are stuck, ensuring we learn from our experience
• You have experience working closely with a product manager to set OKRs and to scope and assign engineering tasks

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the product manager to prioritize and scope work
• Support and mentor your teammates to become more effective engineers and colleagues
• Design and implement processes (e.g. status updates, reflection and learning, team bonding) that allow the team to operate smoothly
• Ensure that technical approaches align with business needs
• Create and maintain a positive and collaborative team culture and work environment

Preferred Qualifications

• You care a lot about working on software whose mission you believe in. Working at Wave positively impacts millions of lives through fast and cheap mobile money services. By helping us build a best-in-class customer service experience, you’ll have a big impact on the lives of lots of underserved people
• You want to be part of an engineering culture that values simple and straightforward architecture over cutting-edge shiny tech. This helps us keep Wave simple to operate and makes it easier to achieve our reliability goals
• You are excited to build a team culture that’s positive and collaborative, and to help the engineers level up and advance their careers
• You have experience with our stack (Python backend, postgres database, SQL based accounting tool, simple template-based and react-based web frontends)

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
• You can work remotely from anywhere (between UTC -1 and +3) with reliable Internet access
• You’re willing to travel to one of our key markets once per year for ~6 days (Wave covers all costs). We also provide a yearly stipend of $800 to meet with coworkers
• We run performance reviews twice a year and award bonuses or promotions to exceptional performers who have been with the company for more than six months
• Our salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula. For this role, we are offering a salary of up to $166,900 USD ((paid in your local currency equivalent) , plus a generous equity package