Senior Security Engineer
Wave Mobile Money is a financial technology company providing affordable mobile money services across Africa.
Funding history
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.
Skills
About the Role
You will lead application-security work with product and infrastructure teams. You will secure AI-powered agents and MCP integrations, design SIEM and SecOps automation, maintain code-security review agents, establish AI governance controls, improve identity and secrets management, review public APIs, and provide security advice and design reviews.
Requirements
- 7–8 years of professional experience
- 3–5 years of experience in a security-related role
- Strong Python experience
- Fluency in English
Responsibilities
- Design agentic SIEM and SecOps pipelines
- Secure MCP integrations against prompt injection, tool misuse, and credential exposure
- Tune and maintain code security review agents
- Develop AI governance standards
- Centralize application login, permission enforcement, and privileged access management
- Improve secrets management with ephemeral secrets and tighter access scopes
- Review public-facing APIs
- Support security projects through advice and design review
Benefits
- Annual travel to an African operating country
- Yearly $1,200 coworker-meetup stipend
- Subsidized health insurance for employees and dependents
- Retirement contributions
- Six months of fully paid parental leave
- Subsidized fertility assistance
- Flexible vacation
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching