Company profile

Wave HQ Tech Stack

Accounting, invoicing, payments and payroll software for small businesses

Software Development Toronto, Ontario 201–500 employees Privately Held

Wave HQ sells online accounting, invoicing, payments and payroll tools to small business owners from Toronto. Its job posts cluster around payments risk: fraud losses, false positives, manual review load and chargebacks, alongside a payments infrastructure migration. A mature data stack (Databricks, Spark, Kafka, Debezium, Hudi, SageMaker, MLflow) and Braze-driven lifecycle marketing suggest real-time fraud detection and journey automation are current priorities.

Tech Stack 41 technologies

Core StackDatabricks Redshift AWS SageMaker Apache Spark AWS Glue Terraform Apache Airflow MLflow Kubeflow Braze Amplitude Figma Python JavaScript React Ruby Datadog PagerDuty Kafka Django gRPC Docker Segment Google Gemini Debezium Hudi Amazon Redshift AWS SQS Protocol Buffers+10 more

What Wave HQ Is BuildingChallenges and projects from their job posts

◆Challenges

Reducing fraud losses and exposure
Cutting chargeback losses and improving chargeback efficiency
Lowering false positives and manual review volume
Scaling marketing automation and customer journey performance
Reducing collections

▲Active Projects

Payments infrastructure migration and platform modernization
Real-time fraud detection and rules tuning
Automated, A/B-tested journeys across email, in-product, push
Chargeback operations policy and content improvements
Marketing automation ecosystem health and scalability

Hiring Activity

Accelerating10 roles · 5 in 30d

Department

Product

Marketing

Design

Engineering

Finance

Ops

Security

Seniority

Senior

Mid

Junior

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About Wave HQ

Wave HQ is a privately held software company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, with 201–500 employees. It builds cloud-based money management tools for small business owners, spanning accounting, invoicing and payments, payroll and receipt handling. The product is built on Python, Ruby, Django, React and JavaScript, running on AWS with Docker and Terraform. Current hiring is concentrated in Canada and weighted toward senior product and marketing roles, with additional openings in design, engineering, finance, operations and security.

HeadquartersToronto, Ontario

Company Size201–500 employees

Hiring MarketsCanada

Frequently Asked Questions

What tech stack does Wave HQ use?

Wave HQ uses Python, Ruby, Django, React and JavaScript on AWS, with Databricks, Apache Spark, Kafka, Debezium, Hudi, Redshift and Airflow for data, SageMaker and MLflow for ML, and Datadog and PagerDuty for monitoring.

What is Wave HQ working on?

Job posts point to real-time fraud detection, fraud rules tuning, chargeback process improvements, a payments infrastructure migration, platform modernization and automated customer journeys across email, in-product and push channels.

Where is Wave HQ headquartered and where does it hire?

Wave HQ is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and current hiring is focused in Canada, with hiring activity accelerating across product, marketing and other teams.

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