Junior Software Engineer

Summary

Join our mission to make Africa the first cashless continent by building financial services that just work, and help us achieve it as a junior engineer responsible for building and improving online payments through Wave.

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

Responsibilities

• 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
• Work with our Postgres database. Analyzing our data models, and helping generate analytics and insights to help your Product Manager make better decisions

Benefits

• Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents
• Retirement contributions (both vary from country to country)
• 6 months of fully paid parental leave
• Subsidized fertility assistance
• Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching