Wave Mobile Money · 12 hours ago
Performance Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$0/yr - $223K/yr
7+ years expWave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent by providing accessible financial services. As the first Performance Engineer, you will establish performance engineering practices to optimize system performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency for millions of users across multiple countries.
Financial ServicesFinTechMobile Payments
Responsibilities
Design, build, and operate Wave’s performance engineering function from the ground up, defining strategy, tooling, and processes for performance testing and optimisation
Profile and analyse production performance, using observability and debugging tools to identify bottlenecks across application code, database queries, caching, networking, and infrastructure
Partner with and mentor backend developers and database engineers to design and roll out performance improvements, including code optimisations, query tuning, caching strategies, and architecture changes
Improve our observability stack for performance signals by creating metrics, traces, profiling, and alerting to help teams understand system behaviour under load
Develop and maintain load, stress, and scalability testing frameworks to evaluate the performance of our backend monolith, GraphQL APIs, and Postgres/CockroachDB-backed workloads
Ensuring our monolith and database can safely support the expected user growth (4x in the next 3 years)
Building internal tooling for self-service and automated load testing of critical API and database code paths
Using profiling and observability to reduce the latency of key GraphQL queries and make the tooling readily available to all engineers
Identifying performance regressions early and making them visible across engineering
Creating performance guidelines and training materials for backend engineers
Create automated performance testing in CI/CD to ensure every significant change is evaluated for throughput, latency, and resource efficiency
Qualification
Required
7+ years of experience in performance engineering, SRE, or systems optimisation
Deep proficiency in Python performance analysis and optimisation
Deep understanding of Postgres performance, SQL optimisation, indexing, and query execution
Experience with GraphQL performance
Experience building internal performance tooling or platforms that other engineers use
Track record of measurable performance improvements (reduced latency, lower costs, improved throughput)
Demonstrated expertise in performance testing, load testing, profiling, and optimisation of backend services and databases
Strong programming skills in more than one programming language (Python preferred as one of them)
Solid understanding of networking, distributed systems, and caching strategies
Excellent communication and collaboration skills
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
Company
Wave Mobile Money
Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money.
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2021 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$438.66MKey Investors
Rand Merchant BankInternational Finance CorporationAlameda Research
2025-06-30Debt Financing· $137M
2022-07-06Debt Financing· $91.66M
2022-01-01Series Unknown· $10M
Leadership Team
Drew Durbin
Founder & CEO
Sid Sridhar
Head of Business
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