Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Wave, a leading financial institution in Africa, as a Software Engineer focused on enhancing user account security. You will play a crucial role in building and improving security features, including login experiences and scam detection. This involves taking ownership of projects from conception to deployment, collaborating with product and engineering teams, and assisting customer support. The role offers remote work flexibility within a specified time zone, along with travel opportunities, performance-based bonuses, and a competitive salary and equity package. Wave provides comprehensive benefits, including subsidized health insurance, parental leave, flexible vacation time, and charitable donation matching. The ideal candidate possesses at least 5 years of software engineering experience and a strong interest in building secure and user-friendly systems.

Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer
• Interest in working in any part of the stack, depending on what’s needed
• Fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Build and improve the ways we keep users’ accounts secure, including login experience and scam detection
• 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
• Develop and deploy a “magic link” login and verification flow that verifies user identities by having them click a link
• Create new tools and processes to help our support teams handle disputed transactions
• Build infrastructure for freezing funds in cases where we suspect a transaction or refund was unauthorized
• Improve our login flow through new authentication experiments
• Deeply understand the risk landscape at Wave
• Work with the Product Manager to design and build new features related to fraud detection and response
• 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 with other engineers via pairing and design and code review

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 -5 and +1) 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 package
• 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