We're making Africa the first cashless continent.
In 2017, nearly 60% of adults 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 November 2017, we launched a mobile app in Senegal for cash deposit, withdrawal, and peer-to-peer and business payments. In 2019, we expanded to Cote d'Ivoire. Now, we have millions of users and are growing fast. Our goal is to make Africa the first cashless continent. And that's where you come in....
Wave is one of the fastest-growing financial services ever, and our data is rapidly getting too big to live on a single instance. We're starting a Database team to own our data layer, making sure it can scale reliably and product engineers can work with it effectively. You'll lead this team.
The team will own 4+ large self-hosted Postgres clusters on Google Cloud Platform and bare metal (the latter due to data sovereignty requirements), a Snowflake data warehouse, and various pieces of related tooling.
You'll personally be responsible for:
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