Python
GraphQL
Kotlin

Application Security Engineer

Overview

Wave is hiring an Application Security Engineer to help make Africa the first cashless continent by ensuring the security of their financial services.

Job Description

Wave is a financial services company focused on making Africa the first cashless continent. They provide financial services that are instantly available and accepted everywhere, with no account fees. Wave is the largest financial institution in Senegal and Côte d'Ivoire, with millions of users across 9 countries.

Responsibilities

  • - Centralise application-level login and permissions enforcement
  • - Configure and utilise external SIEM solutions to monitor our infrastructure
  • - Help us increase our posture around secret management
  • - Security review of our public-facing APIs
  • - Partner with teams across Wave to define secure guardrails, supporting investigations and incident response
  • - Work with our IT Team to fix any non-conformities found during audits by central banks and ISO certification

Required Skills

  • - Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with a minimum of 2 years of it spent in a security-related role
  • - Strong Experience with Python
  • - Fluent English
  • - Are excited about finding the right balance between security and velocity
  • - Push through hard problems without giving up
  • - Have experience remediating non-conformities
  • - Enjoy helping other engineers understand and implement secure patterns
  • - Are not afraid to take on complicated systems
  • - Are excited to work on lots of different security-related work, from audits to code refactors
  • - Work to make things easier for the next engineer who will touch your code
  • - Always try to improve as a programmer and colleague
  • - Are interested in security-focused source code review and penetration testing
  • - Have an interest in growing and mentoring a team

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 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays
  • - $10,000 annual charitable donation matching

About the company

We’re on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent. On a continent where over half the population has no bank account, Wave is building the first modern financial network — no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere!


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