Senior Software Engineer – Scalable Fintech Platforms

Wave; United States; Remote; USD 115,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus Structure

Benefits Plan

Health & Wellness Flex Account

Wellness Days

Paid Holiday Shutdown

Wave Days

Job summary

Wave is hiring Senior Software Engineers to join cross-functional teams delivering financial products at scale. You will write clear, well-tested code and collaborate with Engineers, PMs and Designers to solve challenging problems.

You’ll own major initiatives from definition through delivery and help maintain systems post-launch. The role requires 5+ years building production web apps with Python/Django and frontend React/TypeScript, plus experience with APIs, data modelling and observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production web applications, including backend services in Python/Django (Ruby/Rails a strong plus).
• Frontend experience with React and TypeScript; GraphQL/Apollo a plus.
• Experience integrating with third-party financial or payroll APIs; data in sync.
• Strong grasp of data modelling and source-of-truth design across multiple services.
• Experience finding and fixing performance bottlenecks.
• Hands-on with observability: Datadog metrics, traces and monitors, Terraform, and reducing alert noise.
• Has shipped changes with feature flags and staged rollouts; used analytics to judge releases.
• Writes clear technical docs; on-call outside standard hours is occasionally required.

Responsibilities

• Writing clear, concise, elegant, and well-tested code.
• Working as part of a small, agile, integrated product team focused on continual improvement.
• Translating complex, cross-system challenges into well-defined execution plans.
• Delivering code that goes beyond what is strictly assigned.
• Taking responsibility for monitoring or alerts needed to support and maintain new initiatives post-launch.
• Having a substantial impact on the team’s pace and quality of deliverables.
• Taking complete ownership of major initiatives or complex tasks from definition to delivery.
• Working with external stakeholders to understand end goals when required.
• Creating delivery plans for entire initiatives.

Skills

Python/Django

React

TypeScript

GraphQL/Apollo

Data modelling

Observability

Feature flags

Analytics

PII handling

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

Kafka

Amplitude

Job description

Wave is hiring Senior Software Engineers to join cross-functional teams delivering financial products at scale. You will write clear, well-tested code and collaborate with Engineers, PMs and Designers to solve challenging problems.

You’ll own major initiatives from definition through delivery and help maintain systems post-launch. The role requires 5+ years building production web apps with Python/Django and frontend React/TypeScript, plus experience with APIs, data modelling and observability.