We're making Africa the first cashless continent.
In 2017, over half the population in Sub-Saharan Africa had no bank account. That's for good reason—the fees are too high, the closest branch can be miles away, and nobody takes cards. Without access to financial institutions, people are forced to keep their savings under the mattress. Small business owners rely on lenders who charge extortionate rates. Parents spend hours waiting in line to pay school fees in cash.
We're solving this by building financial services that just work: no account fees, instantly available, and accepted everywhere. In places where electricity, water and roads don't always work, you can still send money with Wave. In 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. Now, we have millions of users across six countries and are growing fast.
Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...
Wave is growing in terms of the countries we’re operating in and the number of users we’re serving. In a compliance-sensitive industry, this means that we’re working with more jurisdictions, and our systems need to serve more users in a greater variety of situations. To help us prepare for this growth, we’re building more flexible and scalable systems for checking IDs, screening users, understanding account ownership, monitoring transactions, and complying with all other local laws and regulations while causing the minimum disruption to our users.
As Engineering Manager, you will lead our Prod Finance and Compliance team (up to six engineers), which builds and maintains systems related to compliance requirements, including KYC, AML, watchlist screening, account limits, and systems that support our treasury and accounting teams. You will work closely with our Finance and Compliance PM and two data analysts to build and maintain the systems that will help us build reliable, customer-friendly compliance systems for the long term.
In this role, you'll:
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