
Swift
SwiftUI
Python
iOS Engineer
Overview
Wave is hiring an experienced iOS engineer to help build and improve the ways people pay with Wave, contributing to making Africa the first cashless continent.
Job Description
Wave is a financial services company focused on making Africa the first cashless continent by providing no-fee, instantly available, and widely accepted financial services. Wave launched a mobile app in Senegal in 2017 and now has millions of users across six countries.
Responsibilities
- - Build and improve the ways people pay with Wave
- - Use iOS expertise to create user-friendly and maintainable applications
- - Help the rest of the team improve their frontend skills
- - Enable people to use their Wave app to pay for products in stores
- - Allow users to send money to Wave users in other countries
- - Build a way for people to move money between their bank account and Wave account
Required Skills
- - Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with at least 2 years building iOS applications
- - Experience using Swift and SwiftUI
- - Native or fluent English
- - Reflexively ask yourself, ''is this code the best way to make my users happy?''
- - Push through hard problems without giving up
- - Enjoy helping other engineers improve their frontend skills
- - Not afraid to take on complicated systems
- - Excited to learn backend work or Android work
- - Work to make things easier for the next engineer
- - Always try to improve as a programmer and colleague
Benefits
- - Work remotely from anywhere (between UTC -1 and +3)
- - Travel covered once per year to one of Wave's operating countries in Africa
- - Yearly stipend of $1200 to meet with coworkers
- - Performance reviews twice a year with bonuses or promotions
- - Subsidized health insurance and retirement contributions
- - 6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
- - Flexible vacation (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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