Wave Mobile Money

www.wave.com

4 Jobs

4,164 Employees

About the Company

We're making Africa the first cashless continent.

In 2017, nearly 60% of adults in sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason--the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.

We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In November 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. In 2019, we expanded to Cote D'Ivoire. Now, we have millions of users and are growing fast.
Our goal is to drive financial inclusion and make Africa the first cashless continent.

Listed Jobs

Company Name: Wave Mobile Money
Job Title: Network Engineer
Job Description: **Job Title** Network Engineer **Role Summary** Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise network infrastructure for an expanding fintech company operating across multiple African countries. Own the complete networking stack, ensuring connectivity, security, and performance for all office locations, while driving automation and standardization. **Expectations** - Deliver reliable network services to support rapid business growth. - Own end-to-end network lifecycle, from design to decommissioning. - Implement zero-touch, self-healing, and scalable solutions. - Collaborate with stakeholders across IT and business units. - Attend periodic travel to operations sites (up to 50 % travel first year). **Key Responsibilities** - Design and implement network architecture for >7 countries, covering 2,000+ endpoints per site. - Standardize network stack and internet management across all locations. - Own disaster recovery planning and execution. - Manage network hardware lifecycle: procurement, maintenance, monitoring. - Automate orchestration of VLANs, VPNs, zero‑trust, firewall rules, and hardware configuration. - Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and self‑healing mechanisms. - Perform traffic engineering, load balancing, and topology management. - Handle incident response and coordination with stakeholders. - Maintain inventory and documentation of network assets. **Required Skills** - 5+ years as a Network Engineer with multi‑site, international experience. - Expertise in firewalls (Palo Alto, Sophos), switching (Cisco, HPE), WLAN (Cisco, Aruba, Sophos). - Strong scripting in Python; automation with Puppet or Ansible. - Deep understanding of VLANs, VPNs, zero‑trust models, and firewall rule sets. - Experience with disaster recovery, traffic engineering, and load balancing. - Excellent communication and expectation management. - Self‑starter with high attention to detail and proactive problem‑solving. - French language proficiency or willingness to learn. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. - Professional certifications in networking and security (e.g., CCNA/CCNP, PAN‑OS, Palo Alto, Aruba, Sophos, or equivalent) are highly desirable.

London, United kingdom

Remote

Mid level

27-11-2025

Company Name: Wave Mobile Money
Job Title: Junior Security Engineer
Job Description: **Job Title**: Junior Security Engineer **Role Summary** Build and maintain secure financial infrastructure to support a cashless Africa. Focus on monitoring, remediating, and improving security systems for a rapidly growing digital financial services platform. **Expectations** Proven ability to balance security rigor with operational velocity. Collaborate across teams to address security gaps, resolve audits, and support incident response. **Key Responsibilities** - Monitor, refine, and develop security alerts for infrastructure and applications. - Centralize application-level authentication and permissions enforcement. - Configure SIEM solutions for infrastructure monitoring. - Conduct security reviews of public-facing APIs and application code. - Partner with engineering teams to implement secure guardrails and fix compliance issues. - Support IT audits and remediate non-conformities from regulatory assessments. **Required Skills** - Strong Python programming and security remediation experience. - Hands-on SIEM configuration and alert tuning. - Familiarity with secure API design, secret management, and incident response. - Fluency in English and problem-solving in dynamic environments. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field. - Minimum 2 years in a security engineering role (industry experience preferred).

Company Name: Wave Mobile Money
Job Title: Engineering Manager-Database Reliability
Job Description: **Job Title** Engineering Manager – Database Reliability **Role Summary** Lead a globally distributed team of database reliability engineers to design, operate, and scale high‑availability, high‑performance database systems (PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, and future platforms). Provide technical vision, coaching, and operational excellence to ensure continuous service availability for a rapidly growing user base. **Expectations** - Minimum 5 years managing database or storage teams. - Proven people‑management skills: coaching, performance evaluation, career development. - Strong project‑management experience: prioritisation, schedule tracking, cross‑functional communication. - Experience running production‑grade on‑call rotations, incident response, post‑mortems, load testing, and capacity planning. - Hands‑on database administration in production (replication, HA/DR, backups, migrations). - Familiarity with Kubernetes‑based DB workloads, Cloud (preferably GCP) or datacenter environments, and Terraform. - Ability to travel to operational markets (≈6 days/year). **Key Responsibilities** - Guide the database reliability team in architecting, maintaining, and evolving resilient database environments. - Mentor and develop engineers across multiple time zones. - Design and refine on‑call, incident‑response, post‑mortem, load‑testing, and capacity‑planning processes. - Collaborate with infrastructure, product, and security teams on platform‑wide database initiatives. - Lead monitoring, performance tuning, and cost‑optimisation efforts for PostgreSQL, CockroachDB, and future systems. - Own hiring cycle: forecast staffing, craft interview loops, evaluate candidates, close offers. - Foster a culture of reliability, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement. **Required Skills** - **Database Expertise:** PostgreSQL, CockroachDB (plus other relational or NoSQL engines). - **Infrastructure:** Kubernetes, container orchestration, GCP, Terraform, or equivalent. - **Operations:** Replication, HA/DR, backups, migrations, capacity planning, load testing, monitoring, alerting, cost optimisation. - **Leadership:** Coaching, performance management, career development. - **Project Management:** Prioritisation, schedule tracking, cross‑team communication. - **Hiring:** Interview design, candidate assessment, offer negotiation. **Required Education & Certifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. - Relevant certifications (optional but advantageous): Google Professional Cloud Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator, PostgreSQL Administrator Certification, or similar database‑specific credentials.

Company Name: Wave Mobile Money
Job Title: Data Scientist
Job Description: Job Title: Data Scientist Role Summary: Develop and implement data-driven solutions to optimize financial services user growth, reward programs, and business impact through machine learning, analytics, and A/B testing. Focus on end-to-end problem-solving with emphasis on real-world user outcomes. Expectations: Candidate must be product-focused, hands-on, and capable of translating data insights into actionable strategies. Balances pragmatic solutions with advanced analytics to maximize user and business impact. Key Responsibilities: - Design and implement machine learning models and analytics for program optimization (e.g., rewards, targeting). - Lead end-to-end projects, including defining strategies, coding solutions, and deploying production-ready systems. - Collaborate with engineers, data analysts, economists, and product managers to prioritize and refine initiatives. - Conduct experiments (A/B tests) to validate hypotheses and iterate on user-facing features. - Partner with operations teams to assess real-world impact of data-driven decisions. Required Skills: - Proficiency in Python for data manipulation, analysis, and machine learning (production experience required). - Advanced SQL skills. - Strong foundation in probability, statistics, and experimental design. - Experience with geospatial analytics, network analysis, or uplift modeling preferred. - Track record of delivering data products via A/B testing and iterative improvement. Required Education & Certifications: - Bachelor’s degree (minimum) in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, or Engineering. - Master’s/PhD preferred. - 4+ years applied data science experience (industry-focused). - Demonstrated expertise in analytics and machine learning for user growth or incentive programs.