Senior Application Security Engineer

About the role

Wave is seeking an experienced security engineer to lead application security initiatives and enhance the company's security posture. You will work closely with product and infrastructure teams to secure systems, define guardrails for AI-powered agents, and implement technical controls across the organization. This role offers the opportunity to manage diverse security projects from planning to delivery in a fast-growing financial services environment.

Responsibilities

• Design agentic SIEM/SecOps pipelines to evaluate and tune 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 tailored to the codebase and threat model
• Develop internal AI governance standards covering acceptable use, data handling, and audit requirements
• Centralise application-level login and permissions enforcement including privileged access management
• Rework secrets management with ephemeral secrets and tighter access scopes
• Conduct security reviews of public-facing APIs

Required skills

• Python
• Application Security
• Cloud technologies

Nice to have

• ISO-27001
• PCI-DSS
• LLM security
• Penetration testing
• Source code review

Benefits

• Subsidized health insurance
• Retirement contributions
• 6 months fully paid parental leave
• Subsidized fertility assistance
• Flexible vacation
• Charitable donation matching
• Yearly travel stipend

About the Company

Wave is building financial services to make Africa the first cashless continent by providing affordable, instantly available, and widely accepted mobile financial services. With millions of users across 9 countries, the company is backed by world-class investors including Founders Fund, Sequoia Heritage, and Stripe.