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!