Chief Technology Officer
Wave Mobile Money is a financial technology company providing affordable mobile money services across Africa. Its offerings include money transfers, deposits and withdrawals, bill payments, airtime purchases, merchant payments, collections, bulk payments, and checkout APIs.
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About Wave Mobile Money Inc.
Wave Mobile Money builds and operates a mobile financial network intended to help make Africa the first cashless continent. Its consumer services enable users to deposit and withdraw money, send funds, pay bills, buy airtime, and access customer support through mobile applications and agents. Wave Business provides bulk payments, in-person merchant payments, cash collection tools, a business portal, and checkout APIs. The company serves consumers, agents, merchants, businesses, and other clients across multiple African countries.
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About the Role
You will own engineering end to end, including systems, people, and standards. You will set reliability and incident-response standards, lead engineering leaders, support senior hiring, guide AI use in engineering, plan architecture for expansion, and communicate engineering priorities clearly to stakeholders.
Requirements
- Managed an engineering organization of at least 100 people, including managers of managers
- Software engineering background with the ability to read code and evaluate technical arguments
- Accountability for a system where failure involved money, safety, or regulated data
- Experience hiring senior engineering leaders and managing unsuccessful leadership placements
- Clear and persuasive writing for non-engineering audiences
- Demonstrated point of view on AI in engineering
Responsibilities
- Maintain simple, effective engineering processes and designs as the organization grows
- Set standards for uptime, incident response, and safe changes to financial systems
- Lead engineering managers and directors, including hiring and development
- Guide the engineering vision and adoption of AI
- Plan architecture and organizational structure for market expansion
- Communicate engineering work and priorities to technical and non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
- Yearly $1,200 coworking meetup stipend
- Subsidized health insurance for employees and dependents
- Retirement contributions
- Six months of fully paid parental leave
- Subsidized fertility assistance
- Flexible vacation
- Annual charitable donation matching up to $10,000
- Travel costs covered for required market travel