Engineering Manager

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month. It is Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, processing over $250 billion in digital payment transactions annually.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8-10 years of experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer, or similar hands-on technical role.
• 5+ years of strong experience building production systems using Java and Spring Boot.
• Minimum 3 years of proven engineering leadership experience managing high-performing teams.
• Solid grasp of Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and iterative delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex product requirements into well-structured EPICs, user stories, and tasks.
• Strong backend engineering expertise; exposure to frontend technologies is a plus.
• Experience with project planning and tracking tools.
• Familiarity with engineering, product health metrics, and monitoring tools.
• Hands-on capability to debug complex production issues, lead incident response, and conduct blameless RCA.
• Good understanding of modern deployment practices, including CI/CD pipelines and release management.
• Ability to drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.
• Excellent risk management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Proven track record of improving team velocity, delivery predictability, and engineering excellence.

Generic Skills:

• Problem-solving: Ability to assess complex problems and make decisions.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal skills.
• Adaptability: Thrive in fast-paced, changing environments.
• Attention to Detail: Meticulous documentation of technical requirements.

Supervisory Skills:

• Team Management: Experience managing and mentoring engineers.
• Resource Allocation: Assess bandwidth and manage resource distribution.
• Feedback: Conduct performance reviews and provide constructive feedback.
• Stakeholder Management: Lead project status reviews and manage communication.

• Own end-to-end delivery and execution across cross-functional teams within your product area, ensuring predictable and high-quality outcomes.
• Evaluate business and product requirements for technical feasibility and architectural alignment, translating them into well-defined EPICs and technical user stories.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Engineers to continuously refine, groom, and prioritize the backlog.
• Plan and drive sprint execution with clearly defined goals, using project planning tools to establish timelines, delivery milestones, and surface dependencies early.
• Champion engineering processes and rituals that enable strong collaboration, accountability, and team efficiency.
• Monitor team velocity and capacity to optimize resource allocation, proactively balancing bandwidth against delivery commitments.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and stakeholder alignment to remove bottlenecks and maintain smooth execution.
• Guide design decisions, enforce sound design patterns, and participate in code reviews to maintain high engineering quality.
• Ensure robust monitoring, alerting, and observability for all owned services, consistently meeting defined SLIs and SLOs.
• Partner with Product Managers to define, track, and publish post-release product metrics, driving transparency and continuous improvement.

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