Senior Security Engineer

🕒 5 days ago

🌐 Ghana, Kenya, +2 more countries – Remote

🇬🇭 Ghana – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 $185.8k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Wave Mobile Money

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Logistics • Fintech

Wave Mobile Money is a company that offers a revolutionary mobile money service. Their platform allows users to deposit, withdraw, and send money with minimal fees—only 1% for sending money. Customers can pay bills and buy airtime instantly for free. Wave ensures the protection of users' finances with best-in-class security and provides customer support through a toll-free number. The service is praised for its simplicity, efficiency, and convenience, making it a popular choice for transferring money and managing mobile financial transactions.

📋 Description

• Lead application security efforts and work with product teams on new systems to enhance Wave's security posture • Work on application security and infrastructure security projects, including database security • Define and enforce guardrails for safely using AI-powered agents • Secure agentic tooling against prompt injection, excessive permissions, and data exfiltration • Build policies and technical controls governing AI usage across the company • Design agentic SIEM/SecOps pipelines for AI-driven triage, alerting, and response automation • Secure MCP integrations against prompt injection, tool misuse, and credential exposure • Tune and maintain code security review agents for Wave's codebase, threat model, and regulatory environment • Develop internal AI governance standards for acceptable use, data handling, and audit requirements • Centralize application-level login and permissions enforcement, including privileged access management • Rework secrets management using ephemeral secrets and tighter access scopes • Conduct security reviews of public-facing APIs • Own security projects from planning through delivery • Support the engineering organization through security advice and design reviews • Collaborate with the Security Team Lead, CISO, Product teams, and Platform teams

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 7-8 years of professional experience, with a minimum of 3-5 years spent in a security-related role • Strong experience with Python • Prior experience with cloud technologies • Fluent English • Reliable internet access • Resume in English and a cover letter describing interest in Wave and the role

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous equity • Performance bonuses or promotions for strong performers who have been with the company for more than six months • Travel covered once per year to one of Wave's operating countries in Africa • $1200 yearly stipend to meet with coworkers • Subsidized health insurance for you and your dependents • Retirement contributions • 6 months fully paid parental leave • Subsidized fertility assistance • Flexible vacation, with most folks taking between 30-40 days per year • $10,000 annual charitable donation matching

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