Software Engineer

About the role

Wave Mobile Money is a mobile money company operating in Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, Uganda, and The Gambia, known for free peer-to-peer transfers and 1 percent withdrawal fees. Wave is hiring remote Software Engineers across backend, mobile, and infrastructure teams to scale the platform across francophone and anglophone Africa. Application deadline 30 September 2026.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship features for the Wave consumer mobile app, agent app, or core backend services.
• Operate services in production through on-call rotations.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, and architectural decisions.
• Collaborate asynchronously with engineers across multiple time zones (West Africa, East Africa, Europe, US).
• Contribute to Wave’s open-by-default engineering culture (RFCs, postmortems, internal wikis).

Requirements

• Three or more years of professional software engineering experience.
• Proficiency in Haskell, Python, Kotlin, or Swift (Wave’s backend is largely Haskell with Python for tooling).
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and systems design.
• Comfort with asynchronous, written collaboration.
• Authorisation to work somewhere in Africa or Europe (Wave hires remote across both regions).

Nice to have

• Experience with functional programming.
• Background in payments or financial systems.
• French language ability (most Wave markets are francophone).

How to apply

Open Wave’s careers page at the apply link, find the relevant Software Engineer role, and submit through the Greenhouse portal. CV review, take-home coding exercise, technical interview, and team-fit interview follow. Closing date 30 September 2026.