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Software Engineer (DevEx-LLM Focus)
Overview
Wave is hiring a Software Engineer focused on Developer Experience and LLM integration to help make Africa the first cashless continent.
Job Description
Wave is a financial services company aiming to make Africa the first cashless continent by providing affordable and accessible financial services. They are looking for an experienced engineer to drive the research, prototyping, and integration of LLM-powered tools to improve internal engineering workflows.
Responsibilities
- - Participate in the DevEx on-duty rotation, identify pain points in our Software Development Life Cycle and prototype AI-driven solutions
- - Build internal tooling powered by LLMs (e.g., code review assistants, automated documentation, test generation)
- - Partner with engineers across Wave to accelerate company-wide LLM adoption
- - Evaluate and refine prompt strategies, fine-tuning, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines
- - Ensure quality, reliability, future scalability and security of AI-assisted developer workflows
Required Skills
- - 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
- - Proven hands-on experience building with LLMs or NLP systems (prompt engineering, RAG, embeddings, fine-tuning, etc.)
- - Strong programming skills (Python strongly preferred)
- - Experience deploying and monitoring services in cloud environments
- - Fluency in English (French is a bonus)
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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