Engineering Manager - DevEx
Wave is a mobile money company reinventing financial services across Africa. It lets users deposit, withdraw, and pay bills for free, send money for a 1% fee, and buy airtime instantly, serving everyday consumers who need affordable, accessible banking.
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About Wave
Wave offers mobile money services designed to make banking modern and affordable, primarily for underserved populations across Africa. Its core product allows users to deposit and withdraw money for free, pay bills for free, send money to anyone for only 1%, and buy airtime instantly, backed by toll-free customer support and strong security. Wave operates across numerous African markets including Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, DRC, Gambia, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Uganda, with a global team building what it describes as 'the future of money, Africa-first.' The company emphasizes a distinct hiring philosophy and culture rooted in transparency, mission-driven work, honesty, and rapid iteration, serving individual consumers and agents who rely on Wave for everyday financial transactions.
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About the Role
You'll lead the Developer Experience team, ensuring that engineers have the right tools and processes to ship value fast and reliably. You'll prioritize the team's work in collaboration with senior engineers, the Director of Platform, and engineering leadership. You'll support and mentor your teammates to become more effective engineers and colleagues. You'll treat the developer platform as a product with internal customers, running developer surveys, measuring adoption, prioritizing based on impact, and balancing the needs of engineers with the needs of the business. You'll drive the development process's vision end-to-end, from a developer starting to code to that code safely running in production across multiple countries. You'll also evaluate AI-assisted development opportunities pragmatically and introduce them only where they clearly reduce toil or improve quality. You can work remotely from anywhere between UTC-1 and +3, and you'll travel to Africa once a year for a week-long immersion trip, fully covered by Wave. This role involves participating in an on-call rotation.
Requirements
- At least three years of experience as a manager supporting internal tooling or DevEx teams
- In a timezone between GMT-1 and GMT+3, or willing to align work hours to that timezone
- Willing to travel to Africa once per year for ~6 days
- Strong experience as a software engineer, preferably in Python environments
- Experience treating internal tools as products, including running developer surveys and measuring adoption
- Demonstrable people-management experience in coaching, performance evaluation, mentorship, and career development
- Relevant project management experience including prioritization, tracking schedules and deadlines, and cross-team communication
- Hands-on experience with modern CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Buildkite, or similar)
- Experience with developer productivity tooling: local dev environments, build systems, IDE tooling, dependency management, and observability for developers
- Working knowledge of Kubernetes and containerised deployments
- Familiarity with at least one of DORA metrics, the SPACE framework, or DX Core 4
Responsibilities
- Prioritize the team's work in collaboration with senior engineers, the Director of Platform, and engineering leadership
- Support and mentor teammates to become more effective engineers and colleagues
- Treat the developer platform as a product with internal customers
- Run developer surveys, measure adoption, and prioritize based on impact
- Balance the needs of engineers with the needs of the business
- Drive the development process's vision end-to-end from coding to production
- Evaluate AI-assisted development opportunities pragmatically
Benefits
- Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents
- Retirement contributions
- 6 months fully paid parental leave
- Subsidized fertility assistance
- Unlimited vacation with a 20-day minimum requirement
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching
- Annual immersion trip to Africa with all costs covered