Network Engineer

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 9 countries and are growing fast.

Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent and that's where you come in...

We're looking for an engineer who is independent and excited about getting things done. You'll be responsible for building and improving the enterprise network infrastructure and have ownership of the service and its impact on employee productivity at Wave. You will own the entire networking stack and be responsible for Administration of all enterprise networking infrastructure, planning and implementation of systems as we rapidly scale our business.

In this role you'll:

• You'll join an autonomous team focused on a single area of Wave's IT org. You will report directly to the IT Director. Typically, you'll be responsible for network Infrastructure end-to-end, from design through deployment and maintenance.
• You will be joining at a time of transformation, in the IT organization evolving from a flat team structure to area of skilled ownership, along with the business is growing at a pace of taking ownership of projects and business needs such as:
• Network and Security Infrastructure:
• • Dedicated administration for all office locations across 7+ countries of operations in Africa.
• Standardisation of network stack.
• Standardised approach to internet management across all geographical locations.
• Disaster Recovery ownership
• Network hardware lifecycle management: procurement, maintenance, management, monitoring
• Automations, for example:
• • Orchestration of VLANs, VPNs, Zero Trust and firewall rules.
• Automated hardware configuration management
• Zero Touch deployments
• Networking monitoring, alerting and self-healing
• Traffic Engineering and Load Balancing
• Inventory and topology management
• Incident response
• Our stack (prior experience is a strong plus, but not required):
• • Firewall: Palo Alto, Sophos
• Switching: Cisco, HPE
• WLAN: Cisco, Aruba, Sophos
• Automation: Python
• Orchestration: Puppet, Ansible

Remote

• You can work remotely as long as your working hours align with GMT +/- 1, with reliable Internet access as long as you have work authorization.
• Every year, you'll travel to Africa for a one-week immersion trip. (Wave covers all costs.)
• Our salaries are competitive and are calculated using a transparent formula. For this role, depending on your experience level and location, we are offering a salary of up to $166,900 USD (paid in your local currency equivalent) 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 fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance
• Unlimited vacation with a 20-day minimum requirement
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching

• Minimum 5 years of professional experience as a Network Engineer.
• Experience as a Network Engineer managing multiple, international sites, including single sites of 2,000+ endpoints.
• Good communication skills with stakeholders and expectation management.
• Successful candidates must be willing to travel to our operating countries when required as part of your regular duties. For the first year, up to 50% travel may be required to review all the current setups.

• Have experience working closely with Data Center engineers.
• Speak French, or are interested in learning.
• Are excessively detail-oriented and seek to achieve excellence in everything you do.
• Are a self-starter and proactive about achieving ambitious targets.
• Love owning projects - you're autonomous yet know when to escalate problems.
• Willing to go the distance to get something done.
  Are comfortable defaulting to over-communication and overreaching when it comes to coordination.

• We have a rapidly growing in-country team in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Uganda, Niger, Sierra Leone, and Cameroon plus remote team members spread across the world.
• We're deeply passionate about our mission of bringing radically affordable financial services to the people who need them most.
• We foster autonomy for our employees. You'll own your projects at every stage, from understanding the problem to monitoring your solution in production.
• We raised the largest Series A in Africa in 2021. Our world-class investors, include Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, Stripe, Ribbit Capital, Y Combinator, and Partech Africa.
• We are on Y Combinator's top companies by revenue.

Fill out the form below, and upload a resume in English and a cover letter describing your interest in Wave and the role.

We review applications frequently and recommend that you apply to the role that most closely aligns with your skills, experience and career goals.

Wave is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.