
Python
GraphQL
Kotlin
Software Engineer
Overview
Wave is hiring a software 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.
Responsibilities
- - Build and improve the ways people pay with Wave
- - Own every step of the process from understanding the problem to shipping solutions
- - Join an autonomous, cross-functional team focused on a single area of Wave's product
- - Responsible for a feature or improvement end-to-end, from design through deployment
Required Skills
- - Minimum of 5 years of professional experience as a software engineer
- - Fluent in English, bilingual in French is a bonus
- - 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
- - 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
- - Excited to deeply understand the inner workings of the tools you use
Benefits
- - Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents
- - Retirement contributions
- - 6 months of fully paid parental leave
- - 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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