Application Security Engineer

Wave Mobile Money is on a mission to make Africa the first cashless continent by providing accessible financial services. They are seeking an experienced security engineer to enhance their application security and work with product teams to safeguard customer trust and manage various security projects.

Responsibilities:

• Centralise application-level login and permissions enforcement
• Configure and utilise external SIEM solutions to monitor our infrastructure
• Help us increase our posture around secret management
• Security review of our public-facing APIs
• Partner with teams across Wave to define secure guardrails, supporting investigations and incident response
• Work with our IT Team to fix any non-conformities found during audits by central banks and ISO certification

Requirements:

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience with a minimum of 2 years of it spent in a security-related role
• Strong Experience with Python
• Fluent English
• Some experience with common industry certifications like ISO-27001 and PCI-DSS would be beneficial
• Experience remediating non-conformities
• Interest in security-focused source code review and penetration testing
• Interest in growing and mentoring a team