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Our mission
We're making Africa the first cashless continent.
Our mission
We're making Africa the first cashless continent.
In 2017, over half the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.
We're solving this by building financial services that just work : no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. Now, we have millions of users across six countries and are growing fast.
Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...
How you’ll help us achieve it
Wave is now the largest financial institution in Senegal, with over 7 million users. And, we’re still in the early days of our product roadmap and potential impact on people’s everyday lives.
As a Databases Engineer At Wave, You Will Ensure Our Databases Are Highly Reliable, Scalable, And Performant To Support Our Rapid Growth. You Will Design, Implement, And Maintain Robust Infrastructure And Tools To Handle Millions Of Transactions Daily Across Multiple Countries. Key Focus Areas Include
- Improving our Kubernetes-based database workloads in the cloud and local datacenters
- Improving database observability through metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
- Optimising performance and efficiency of backend services and databases
- Collaborating with product teams to proactively improve the reliability of our services
- Participating in and improving our on-call incident response processes
- Championing security and compliance in our infrastructure
In this role, you will have the opportunity to tackle exciting challenges, such as :
Improving our automation and DB operations as we scale to 14 DB clusters for countries (and growing)Improve our hybrid infrastructure architecture in partnership with the infrastructure teamBuild tooling to load test our databases to find and remove bottlenecksEnsuring 99.99% uptime for payment processing despite unreliable infrastructure and communicationsEnabling instant money transfers for millions of users across several countriesLeading or being involved in the resolution of complex incidents and problemsKey Details
You can work remotely from anywhere (between GMT +3 and GMT -5) with reliable Internet accessWave covers travel once per year to one of our operating countries in Africa, as well as a yearly stipend of $1200 to meet with coworkersThis role involves participating in an on-call rotationOur salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula. For this role, we are offering a salary of up to $222,700 (paid in your local currency equivalent) plus a generous equity packageMajor benefits :Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country6 months fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistanceFlexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays10,000 annual charitable donation matchingRequirements
7+ years of experience in an engineering roleStrong experience in managing Relational Databases in Kubernetes or self-hosted at scaleSolid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and database conceptsTrack record of successfully implementing observability and other SRE best practicesProficiency in at least one backend language, preferably PythonAbility to debug and optimize complex systemsExcellent communication and collaboration skillsPassion for our mission of bringing financial services to underserved marketsBonus points for :
Experience supporting high-volume transactional systems in the finance / payments domainFamiliarity with our tech stack (Postgres, Redis, GraphQL)Knowledge of security and compliance standards for financial servicesContributions to open-source projects or database communityYou might be a good fit if you :
Care a lot about working on software whose mission you can believe inHave a bias for action. You see a problem, you fix a problem. You get buy-in for your solutions and keep tickets movingHave a growth mindset and a willingness to use your skills and experience to mentor less-experienced engineersHave the desire to learn from others and make yourself better every dayAre excited to build world-class infrastructure that powers economic opportunity for an entire continentAbout engineering at Wave
We Value
Boring technologySimple, predictable designsDeeply understanding our tools and systemsBeing tenacious in the face of tricky problemsConstantly trying to improve as engineers and colleaguesOur Stack (note That We Will Train You On Any Of These—you Don't Need Prior Experience—and You Probably Won't Work Much / at All With The Frontend Parts)
Infrastructure : GCP / TerraformOrchestration : KubernetesDatabase : PostgresCache : RedisBackend : Python 3 (+ mypy)API layer : GraphQLAndroid frontend : Kotlin / JetpackiOS frontend : Swift / SwiftUIWeb frontend : TypeScript / ReactOur team
We have a rapidly growing in-country team in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, and Uganda, plus remote team members spread across the world.We're deeply passionate about our mission of bringing radically affordable financial services to the people who need them most.We foster autonomy for our employees. You'll own your projects at every stage, from understanding the problem to monitoring your solution in production.We raised the largest Series A in Africa in 2021. Our world-class investors, include Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa.We are on Y Combinator's top companies by revenue .How to apply
Fill out the form below, and upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role.
We review applications frequently and recommend that you apply to the role that most closely aligns with your skills, experience and career goals.
Wave is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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