Python
Postgres
SQL
Engineering Manager (Prod Finance & Compliance Team)
Overview
Wave is hiring an Engineering Manager to lead the Prod Finance & Compliance team, focusing on building scalable systems for compliance in a rapidly growing company.
Job Description
Wave is a company on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent by providing financial services that are accessible and affordable. They have millions of users across six countries and are expanding rapidly.
Responsibilities
- - Collaborate with the product manager to prioritize and scope work
- - Support and mentor your teammates to become more effective engineers and colleagues
- - Design and implement processes that allow the team to operate smoothly
- - Ensure that technical approaches align with business needs
- - Create and maintain a positive and collaborative team culture and work environment
Required Skills
- - Fluent in English
- - At least one year of experience managing a software engineering team
- - Experience working on a compliance focussed team at some point in your career
- - Demonstrable people management experience: coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, career development
- - Comfortable with backend server development and SQL
- - Experience managing the day to day work of an engineering team
- - Experience working closely with a product manager to set OKRs and to scope and assign engineering tasks
Benefits
- - Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions
- - 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- - Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year
- - $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!