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 and Côte d'Ivoire,



with millions of users, growing rapidly year-on-year. And, we're still in the early days of our product roadmap and potential impact on people's everyday lives.

Some experience with common industry certifications like ISO-27001 and PCI-DSS would be beneficial, although you won't be expected to run or oversee audits.

Our to-do list changes constantly, but here are some recent projects and activities:
- Configure and utilise external SIEM solutions to monitor our infrastructure
- Help us increase our posture around secret management
- Security review of our public-facing APIs
- Partner with teams across Wave to define secure guardrails, supporting investigations and incident response
- Work with our IT Team to fix any non-conformities found during audits by central banks and ISO certification

Our stack (prior experience is a strong plus, but not required):
- backend: Python 3 (+ mypy)
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📌 Application Security Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Wave
📍 Barcelona