Android Engineer: Remote - Wave Mobile Money

Wave Mobile Money

Ghana
Permanent
Full-time

1 month ago

How you'll help us achieve itWave is now the largest financial institution in Senegal, with over 7 million users. And, we’re still in the early days of our product roadmap and potential impact on people’s everyday lives.We’re looking for an engineer who’s independent and excited about getting things done. You'll be responsible for building and improving the ways people pay and access money with Wave. You'll take ownership of every aspect of the process, starting with a deep comprehension of the problem, collaborating with Product and Engineering managers to identify the optimal solution for our users, leading the entire lifecycle of your project, and assisting the customer support team in resolving issues.You’ll be joining our Field Product team, responsible for building and maintaining the tools used by our field operators to drive user growth.[ad]Our to-do list changes constantly, but here are some recent projects:

Improved geo-localisation of merchants.
Re-design of the Field App to match field operators behaviour.
Supporting new country launches.
Consolidating field operators on the same application.
Improving permission management.

In this role you’ll:

Collaborate with Product to design and build features for the tools used by our internal field operations teams.
Investigate user feedback and resolve system bugs.
Drive technical design discussions and direction.
Actively pair with others and perform code reviews.
Work closely with other Android engineers in the company to improve the way we do things.

Key Details

You can work remotely from anywhere (between UTC -1 and +3) with reliable internet access.
Wave covers travel once per year to one of our operating countries in Africa, as well as a yearly stipend of $1200 to meet with coworkers.
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.
Our salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula. For this role, depending on your level and location, we offer a salary of up to $178,200 USD, plus a generous equity package.
Major benefits:

Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents and retirement contributions (both vary from country to country).
6 months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance.
Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 21-30 days exclusive of statutory holidays.
$10,000 annual charitable donation matching.

Requirements

Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with minimum of 2 years it spent building Android applications.
Experience using Kotlin + Jetpack Compose in a published app (professional or personal projects are fine).
Fluent in English. French is a plus.

[ad2]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 or even branch out to doing Android work - we love folks who are keen to broaden their skill sets!
Work to make things easier for the next engineer who will touch your code.
Always try to improve as a programmer and colleague.

About engineering at WaveYou'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 prior experience with your frontend stack, if you need to work with anything else we’ll train you):

backend: Python 3 (+ pyright)
API layer: GraphQL
Android frontend: Kotlin/Jetpack
iOS frontend: Swift/SwiftUI
web frontend: TypeScript/React
database: Postgres
infrastructure: GCP / Terraform
orchestration: Kubernetes

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