Senior Software Engineer (Risk Team)

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Deeply understand the risk landscape at Wave
• - Work with the Product Manager to design and build new features related to fraud detection and response
• - Investigate bugs and respond to feedback about our current systems
• - Help the team build sustainably by participating in discussions on design and technical direction
• - Collaborate with other engineers via pairing and design and code review

Required Skills

• - Minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer
• - Interest in working in any part of the stack, depending on what’s needed
• - Fluent in English
• - Reflexively ask yourself, ''is this code the best way to make my users happy?''
• - Want to learn to solve hard problems and aren’t afraid to ask for help when you get stuck
• - Are excited to learn about complex systems
• - Can communicate clearly with colleagues who work, speak and think differently
• - Work to make things easier for the next engineer who will touch your code
• - Always try to improve as a programmer and colleague
• - Are excited to deeply understand the inner workings of the tools you use

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 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays
• - $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
• - Wave covers travel once per year to one of their operating countries in Africa, as well as a yearly stipend of $1200 to meet with coworkers