Software Engineer @ Wave Financial

We believe small businesses are at the heart of our communities, and championing them is worth fighting for. We empower small business owners to manage their finances fearlessly, by offering the simplest, all-in-one financial management solution they can’t live without.

DevOps Engineers at Wave bridge the gap between operations and product development, empowering teams to make informed infrastructure decisions, and ensuring the application of industry best practices and the highest security standards. Our team focuses on solving infrastructure challenges, maintaining essential tools, and driving our DevOps enablement program. Following a successful infrastructure modernization, we’re advancing cloud-based developer environments for a fully cloud-native experience.

Here’s How You Make an Impact:

Champion Infrastructure Reliability: Ensure the robustness, security, and scalability of our infrastructure by proactively identifying and resolving potential issues before they impact our services.
Drive Continuous Improvement: Collaborate with product teams to refine and optimize deployment pipelines, reducing friction and increasing deployment frequency while maintaining high standards of security and quality.
Innovate in Cloud-Based Development: Spearhead the development and refinement of cloud-native developer environments, enabling engineers to innovate faster and more efficiently within a fully integrated cloud ecosystem.
Optimize Performance and Cost Efficiency: Analyze and improve the performance of our systems, ensuring our services remain fast, secure, and cost-effective as we scale, while continuously seeking opportunities to optimize cloud spending.
Contribute to Strategic Projects: Participate in and sometimes lead critical projects, such as system migrations or architecture redesigns, that shape the future of our infrastructure and development practices.

You Thrive Here By Possessing the Following:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.3+ years of experience in a DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Infrastructure role, with a strong focus on cloud environments.
Proficiency with AWS, including hands-on experience with services like EC2, EKS, RDS, S3, Lambda, and VPCs.
Solid experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm including deploying and managing containerized applications in production environments.
Expertise with tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible for automating infrastructure provisioning and management.
Proven experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like CircleCI and ArgoCD.
Hands-on experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and familiarity with database migration, optimization, and backup strategies within cloud environments.
Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., DataDog, Prometheus, Grafana) and logging systems (e.g., Sumo Logic, Sentry) to ensure system reliability and performance.
Strong understanding of security principles, including least privilege policies, network security, and data protection in a cloud environment.
Experience in monitoring and optimizing cloud costs, with a focus on making infrastructure both performance and cost-effective.
Ability to quickly identify and resolve technical issues, minimizing downtime and ensuring seamless operations.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including developers, QA, and product managers.
Willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to changing technical landscapes in a fast-paced environment.
Certifications (Preferred): AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Kubernetes Certified Administrator (CKA), or other relevant certifications.

At Wave, you’re treated like the incredible human being you are.

Work From Where You Work Best: We will always have a welcoming, energizing, and world-class office (in Toronto) with a space for you. Or, if you’re more comfortable working from home, the choice is yours.

We Care About Future You: You will stretch yourself and you will grow at Wave. You will also be supported on this journey with diverse learning experiences, educational allowances, mentorship, and so much more.

We Support the Full You: We make a serious investment in your health & wellness. When we think about benefits we think about body, mind, & soul and we take this stuff very seriously.

We Take Care of the Fundamentals: Fair compensation, all the office perks you’d want, and the various goodies you’d expect from a growing tech company. This is the obvious stuff, but we don’t want you to think we forgot!

We believe that a diverse and inclusive culture creates the best workplace. We embrace our differences, value individuality, and the broad spectrum of every Waver’s skills and abilities. We challenge each other from a place of respect and pursuit of continuous growth. We trust each other and encourage everyone to bring their authentic selves to work, everyday. As Wavers, our voices matter, our opinions are met with an open mind. The best ideas win, no matter whose they are. Contributing to an inclusive culture is a part of all of our job descriptions.

We’ve been continuously recognized as one of Canada’s Top Ten Most Admired Corporate Cultures and one of Canada’s Great Places to Work in categories including Technology, Millennials, Mental Health, Inclusion and Women.

Are you ready to be a Waver? Join us!

Software Engineer

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Wave Financial

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