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. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, Moniepoint processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually. Poland is a new strategic location for the company’s engineering team, aimed at senior hires and shaping the company’s presence there.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field.
• 8-10 years of experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer, or similar technical role.
• At least 5 years of strong experience building production systems using Java and Spring Boot.
• Minimum 3 years of proven engineering leadership managing high-performing teams.
• Solid grasp of Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and iterative delivery.
• 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 for managing delivery timelines.
• 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 technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent risk management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Proven track record of improving team velocity, delivery predictability, and engineering excellence.

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

Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment. The role is remote, based in Poland.