Senior iOS Engineer
Our mission
We are making Africa the first cashless continent.
In 2017, more than half of the population in sub-Saharan Africa did not have a bank account. And for good reason: the fees are too high, the nearest agency may be miles away, and no one accepts cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders with exorbitant interest rates. Parents have to queue for hours to pay tuition in cash.
We solve this problem by creating financial services that work: no account fees, instantly available and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water, and roads do not always work, you can still send money with Wave. In November 2017, we launched a mobile application in Senegal for deposit, cash withdrawal and peer-to-peer payments and business. In 2019, we expanded to Ivory Coast. Today we have millions of users and we are growing rapidly. Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that’s where you go…
How you’ll help us achieve it
We are looking for an experienced, independent iOS Engineer who is enthusiastic about getting the job done and ready to get started. You will be responsible for creating and improving payment methods with Wave. You’ll use your iOS expertise to build user-friendly, maintainable apps and help the rest of your team do the same.
Our to-do list is constantly changing, but here are some recent projects:
- Enabling people to use their Wave app to pay for products in stores all over Senegal.
- Allowing our users to cheaply send money to Wave users in other countries.
- Building a way for people to easily move money between their bank account and their Wave account.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with minimum 2 years of it spent building iOS applications.
- Experience using Swift and SwiftUI (professional or personal projects are fine).
- Native or fluent English.
You might be a good fit if you
- 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 on your team to improve their frontend skills.
- Are not afraid to take on complicated systems.
- Are excited to learn to do some amount of backend work where it is closely tied to larger frontend projects.
- Work to make things easier for the next engineer who will touch your code.
- Always try to improve as a programmer and colleague.
Key Details
- You can work remotely from anywhere (between UTC -5 and +4) with reliable internet access.
- Our salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula. For this role, depending on your experience and location, we offer a salary range of $118,600 – $138,400 USD (or local equivalent), plus a generous equity.
- We run performance reviews twice a year and award bonuses or promotions to strong performers who have been with the company for more than six months
Major benefits
- Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country-to-country)
- 6 months 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 Engineering at Wave
- You’ll join an autonomous, cross-functional team focused on a single area of Wave’s product. Each team is led by a product manager and mentored by a technical lead on the team.
- You’ll be responsible for your own frontend-focused projects as well as supporting the other engineers on your team with the frontend parts of their projects. We organize things to give you as much ownership as possible so typically you’ll be in charge of your projects from planning through to release.
Our stack (you only need to have prior experience with your UI stack, if you need to work on something else we will train you):
- backend: Python 3 (+ mypy)
- API layer: GraphQL
- Android frontend: Kotlin/Jetpack
- iOS frontend: Swift/SwiftUI
- web frontend: TypeScript/React
- database: Postgres
- infrastructure: GCP / Terraform
- orchestration: Kubernetes
Our team
- We have a rapidly growing national team in Senegal, Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso, Gambia and Uganda, as well as remote team members spread across the globe.
- We are passionate about our mission to bring affordable financial services to those who need them most.
- We promote employee autonomy.
- You’ll master your own projects every step of the way, from understanding the problem to finding a solution in production.
- We are backed by world-class investors including Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator and Partech Africa.
How to apply
Fill out the form below and upload your CV in English.
Optional: Please add a cover letter or note if you’d like to share something more about your interest in Wave, your role, or your experience. We review applications on a rotating basis.
Wave is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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