Engineering Team Lead

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October 10

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Moniepoint Inc. (Formerly TeamApt Inc.)

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Fintech • Banking • Payments

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa's all-in-one financial ecosystem that provides seamless solutions in payments, banking, credit, and business management for over 10 million businesses and individuals. Operating as Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer, Moniepoint powers the majority of Point of Sale (POS) transactions in the country. The company processes $17 billion monthly while ensuring profitable operations. With operations starting in 2019, Moniepoint continues to support businesses through its comprehensive financial services platform, making significant strides in financial inclusion across emerging markets.

1001 - 5000 employees

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

📋 Description

• Architect and deliver scalable, secure systems for financial transactions, payments, and data processing. • Guide technical design discussions, ensuring system performance, resilience, and maintainability. • Enforce best practices in code quality, testing, observability, and system reliability. • Stay up to date with emerging fintech technologies (APIs, open banking, fraud detection, blockchain) and lead adoption where relevant. • Participate in code reviews and contribute to critical components and services. • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers—developing both their technical and leadership capabilities. • Collaborate closely with Product, Risk, and Compliance teams to balance innovation with regulatory and security requirements. • Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, and technical discussions to keep the team aligned and focused. • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. • Own the end-to-end delivery of projects—from design and development to deployment and monitoring. • Ensure uptime, fault tolerance, and operational excellence for mission-critical financial systems. • Balance short-term delivery priorities with long-term technical sustainability. • Proactively identify risks (security, compliance, scalability) and implement mitigation strategies.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a technical leadership role. • Proven experience building and maintaining distributed systems at scale. • Strong backend development skills in Java, Springboot • Deep understanding of microservices, APIs, cloud infrastructure (GCP / any), and CI/CD pipelines with Kubernetes. • Solid knowledge of databases (Relational/NoSQL), caching, and asynchronous processing. • Familiarity with security best practices, encryption, and compliance standards (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, GDPR). • Experience working in FinTech, banking, or other regulated environments is a plus.

🏖️ Benefits

• Culture - We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human. • Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks. • Compensation - You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, paid leave, plus other benefits.