Wave Mobile Money · 1 day ago
Senior Analytics Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$124K/yr - $176K/yr
5+ years expWave is a company dedicated to making Africa the first cashless continent by providing accessible financial services. As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will focus on structuring and optimizing data to enhance product offerings for millions of users across multiple countries.
Financial ServicesFinTechMobile Payments
Responsibilities
Leading dimensional design to structure Wave’s analytics data in ways that are helpful for human and AI end users
Building out facts, dimensions and One Big Tables (OBTs) as appropriate for a focus area at Wave
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
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
Creating helpful dbt macros
CI/CD checks that catch possibly exploding joins
Reducing the pain of iterating on metric design
Be responsible for the design, build and health of all of our ETL pipelines
Champion best practice across data
Be a key partner in the road map of the data platform team
Qualification
Required
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
Preferred
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
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.
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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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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