iOS Engineer

Wave Mobile Money; United Kingdom; Remote; USD 120,000 - 153,000; Full time

Job summary

Wave Mobile Money, a leading financial institution in Senegal, is seeking an experienced iOS engineer to enhance payment solutions. Join a cross-functional team to create user-friendly applications and contribute to the company's mission of affordable financial services.

Benefits

Subsidized health insurance

Retirement contributions

Flexible vacation policy

Charitable donation matching

Up to $1200 yearly stipend for team meetups

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with at least 2 years building iOS applications.
• Proficiency in Swift and SwiftUI.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Building and improving payment applications.
• Collaborating with other engineers to enhance frontend skills.
• Managing frontend-focused projects from planning to release.

Skills

Swift

SwiftUI

User Experience

Job description

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Wave 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 experienced iOS engineer who’s independent, excited about getting things done and ready to hit the ground running. You'll be responsible for building and improving the ways people pay with Wave. You'll use your iOS expertise to create user-friendly and maintainable applications and to help the rest of your team do the same.

Our to-do list changes constantly, but here are some recent projects:

• Enabling people to use their Wave app to pay for products in stores all over Senegal.
• Allowing our users to cheaply send money to Wave users in other countries.
• Building a way for people to easily move money between their bank account and their Wave account.
• 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 $152,100 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 a minimum of 2 years of it spent building iOS applications.
• Experience using Swift and SwiftUI.
• Native or fluent English.

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 Wave

You'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):

• API layer: GraphQL
• Android frontend: Kotlin/Jetpack
• iOS frontend: Swift/SwiftUI
• web frontend: TypeScript/React
• infrastructure: GCP / Terraform

Our team

• We have a rapidly growing in-country team in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, and Uganda, 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.