Chief Technology Officer

Our mission

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...

How you'll help us achieve it

We're looking for a CTO who wants to own engineering end to end: the systems, the people, and the standards for a company whose work changes lives.

Keep us moving fast as we get bigger: We deliberately favour fewer processes, simple designs, and deeply understood tools, because that's what lets a small team operate a system this important. Your job is to protect that as the headcount grows and ensure more ownership per engineer, and a clear view of where complexity is worth the tradeoff.

Own reliability: Wave is the financial system for tens of millions of people. You'll set the standards for uptime, incident response, and how carefully we change things that move money and you'll be accountable when we fall short.

Build and lead the leadership layer: You'll inherit 5 direct reports and an engineering organization of ~100 people including security, data and inf