Senior Analytics Engineer
Location: Remote
Department: Engineering
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
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. As a senior analytics engineer, you will work to make Wave’s data easy, safe, and reliable to use, enabling better products for our customers.
As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will work to make Wave’s data easy, safe, and reliable to use, enabling better products for our customers. Some examples of focus areas are:
- Leading dimensional design to structure Wave’s analytics data in ways that are helpful for human and AI end users. Examples of what you mind work on:
- Building out facts, dimensions and One Big Tables (OBTs) as appropriate for a focus area at Wave. This involves working closely with domain partners to understand what’s useful to them and what’s not.
- Standardizing metric creation and usage.
- Building out ways to make it easy to add context for LLMs to data models.
- Managing our extensive snowflake estate with a strong analytical mindset. Examples of what you might work on:
- Finding patterns that are repeated frequently and optimizing them.
- Building tools to identify and turn off stale/unused models.
- Evaluating the impact of an optimization on costs and performance.
- Building tools to improve the analytics development experience. Examples of what you mind work on:
- Creating helpful dbt macros.
- CI/CD checks that catch possibly exploding joins.
- Reducing the pain of iterating on metric design.
- Outside of the focus areas, folk in this role will also;
- Be responsible for the design, build and health of all of our ETL pipelines. Part of the role includes being ‘on-duty’. On duty responsibilities require that you have a working understanding of most parts of the stack.
- Champion best practice across data.
- Be a key partner in the road map of the data platform team.
Key details
- This is a fully remote role. Candidates must be based in one of our talent hub countries (UK, Spain, USA (east coast), Canada (east coast), Kenya and Ghana) or in one of our operating markets in Africa including Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, or Burkina Faso.
- Wave provides a yearly $1,200 stipend to support co-working meet ups with teammates.
- Remote team members are expected to travel to our operational markets (e.g. Senegal or Côte d'Ivoire) at least once a year. Exceptions apply, but we’ve found this key to understanding our users and product.
- 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 $123,500 - $176,400 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 of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance.
- Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year.
- $10,000 annual charitable donation matching.
Requirements
- 5+ years as an analytics or data engineer. Software engineering experience that's focused on data platforms also counts.
- 3+ years of involved experience with Snowflake.This should ideally include experience with performance optimization.
- Experience with dimensional modeling. Ideally you would have built two or more dimensional marts.
- Strong python, sql and dbt experience.
- Familiarity with managing an orchestration platform like dagster or airflow.
You might be a good fit if you
- Are proficient in SQL and Python.
- Are a self-starter that excels at exploring problems and collaborating closely with operations teams to drive growth through data.
- Have excellent focus, prioritizing your research and work using an iterative approach (you know when a project is good enough to stop, and you rarely get lost in details).
- Are able to compellingly present your findings to technical and non-technical audiences and make proactive recommendations based on data.
- You excel at choosing the right complexity of analysis for any given business problem, from simple SQL queries to complex experimentation.
Our team
- 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.
How to apply
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.
There are more than 50,000 engineering jobs:
Subscribe to membership and unlock all jobs
Engineering Jobs
60,000+ jobs from 4,500+ well-funded companies
Updated Daily
New jobs are added every day as companies post them
Refined Search
Use filters like skill, location, etc to narrow results
Become a member
🥳🥳🥳 452 happy customers and counting...
Overall, over 80% of customers chose to renew their subscriptions after the initial sign-up.
To try it out
For active job seekers
For those who are passive looking
Cancel anytime
Frequently Asked Questions
- We prioritize job seekers as our customers, unlike bigger job sites, by charging a small fee to provide them with curated access to the best companies and up-to-date jobs. This focus allows us to deliver a more personalized and effective job search experience.
- We've got over 200,000 jobs from 15,000+ vetted companies. No fake or sleazy jobs here!
- We aggregate jobs from 15,000+ companies' career pages, so you can be sure that you're getting the most up-to-date and relevant jobs.
- We're the only job board *for* software engineers, *by* software engineers… in case you needed a reminder! We add thousands of new jobs daily and offer powerful search filters just for you. 🛠️
- Every single hour! We add 2,000-3,000 new jobs daily, so you'll always have fresh opportunities. 🚀
- Typically, job searches take 3-6 months. EchoJobs helps you spend more time applying and less time hunting. 🎯
- Check daily! We're always updating with new jobs. Set up job alerts for even quicker access. 📅
What Fellow Engineers Say