Senior Frontend Engineer

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 transaction value annually.

• At least seven years of professional software engineering experience with production-grade frontend applications.
• At least seven years of experience with JavaScript and React.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML, and modern CSS.
• Solid understanding of React concepts including hooks, component composition, state management, routing, and rendering behavior.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable frontend architectures and reusable component systems.
• Strong knowledge of responsive design, browser compatibility, semantic HTML, and web accessibility.
• Experience integrating frontend applications with APIs including authentication, authorization, validation, caching, and error handling.
• Experience with frontend testing tools and practices, including unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Familiarity with modern frontend tooling, package managers, build systems, and CI pipelines.
• Experience using Git and participating in collaborative code reviews.
• Understanding of frontend performance optimization, application security, and production monitoring.
• Experience with observability/application-monitoring platforms such as New Relic, Datadog, Sentry, or similar.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication, organization, and technical leadership skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
• Experience working in an agile product-development environment.

Nice to have:

• Experience with Next.js or another React-based application framework.
• Experience with GraphQL, server-side rendering, static-site generation, or micro-frontend architectures.
• Experience building or contributing to a design system.
• Familiarity with frontend security practices and secure development principles.
• Experience with feature flags, experimentation, product analytics, and data-informed development.
• Experience working on high-traffic, transaction-heavy, financial, or highly regulated products.
• Experience mentoring engineers or leading frontend technical initiatives.

• Design, build, test, and maintain scalable web applications using React, TypeScript, HTML, and CSS.
• Translate product requirements and design specifications into intuitive, responsive, and accessible user interfaces.
• Define and evolve frontend architecture, coding standards, reusable patterns, and engineering best practices.
• Build and maintain reusable components, shared libraries, and design-system foundations.
• Integrate frontend applications with RESTful APIs, GraphQL services, and other backend systems.
• Improve application performance, reliability, security, and browser compatibility.
• Monitor and optimize Core Web Vitals, page-load performance, bundle size, and runtime efficiency.
• Write clean, well-documented, and maintainable code supported by unit, integration, and end-to-end tests.
• Review code, identify technical risks, and provide constructive feedback.
• Diagnose and resolve production issues using logging, monitoring, analytics, and observability tools.
• Collaborate with product, design, backend, QA, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Break down complex initiatives into technical tasks; contribute to delivery planning.
• Improve development workflows through automation, tooling, continuous integration, and continuous delivery.
• Contribute to technical documentation, architectural decisions, and knowledge sharing.
• Mentor frontend engineers and help strengthen the team’s technical capabilities.
• Evaluate emerging frontend technologies and introduce them when valuable.

Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.