Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Wave, a leading financial institution in Africa, as a Software Engineer focused on building and maintaining compliance, treasury, and accounting systems. You will play a crucial role in enhancing our platform's capabilities, ensuring regulatory compliance, and improving operational efficiency. This role involves designing and developing new features, automating processes, investigating bugs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will work remotely with flexible vacation time and receive competitive compensation, including a generous equity package, subsidized health insurance, parental leave, and other benefits. Wave offers a unique opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven company making a significant impact on financial inclusion in Africa. We are looking for an independent, results-oriented engineer with at least 5 years of experience.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer
• Fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Work with the Product Manager to design and build new features related to compliance, treasury, and accounting
• Assist our accounting team by operating and updating the software that aggregates and translates transaction data for accountants
• Investigate bugs and respond to feedback about our current systems
• Help the team build sustainably by participating in discussions on design and technical direction
• Collaborate closely with other engineers on the team in daily standups, pairing, and design and code reviews
• Automate review of customer IDs
• Use various image processing technologies to automatically review our customer IDs
• Improve automation of the systems that take transaction data and put them in a useful format for our accounting team
• Track and parse bank statements to assist our treasury team in reconciliation
• Be responsible for building and maintaining systems related to compliance requirements including KYC, AML, watchlist screening, and account limits, as well as systems that support our treasury and accounting teams
• Take ownership of every aspect of the process, starting with a deep comprehension of the problem, collaborating with Product and Engineering managers to identify the optimal solution for our users, leading the entire lifecycle of your project, and assisting the customer support team in resolving issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Reflexively ask yourself, “is this code the best way to make my users happy?”
• 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
• Are excited to deeply understand the inner workings of the tools you use

Benefits

• You can work remotely from anywhere (between UTC -1 and +3) 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 $1200 to meet with coworkers
• We run performance reviews twice a year and award bonuses or promotions to strong 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, depending on your level and location, we offer a salary of $144,000 USD, plus a generous equity
• 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 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching