Senior Backend Engineer – R&D

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November 25

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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

• Collaborate on ideation, prototyping, and execution of new revenue-generating products and businesses. • Lead early-stage technical design and market-fit experiments. • Design scalable, production-ready backend systems. • Spearhead key initiatives such as implementing an API Gateway, rethinking architecture patterns, and modernizing our CI/CD and security infrastructure. • Contribute to group-wide strategies in areas like AI adoption, KYC modernization, change management, and long-term technical planning. • Partner with multiple business units to align R&D outcomes with group objectives. • Identify inefficiencies and transform existing workflows, systems, and tools to boost operational excellence. • Drive developer experience improvements through automation, refactoring, and standardization. • Assess, experiment with, and recommend emerging technologies for adoption across the organization. • Support engineering teams with innovation initiatives and guide toolchain modernization. • Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code with a focus on reliability and testability. • Debug complex issues and provide technical guidance across multiple stacks. • Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions. • Document systems, decisions, experiments, and methodologies to support transparency across teams.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong backend engineering expertise, with the ability to design and implement scalable, reliable systems from scratch. • Energized by ideation, rapid prototyping, and validating new business opportunities through technical experimentation. • Strategic mindset and can contribute to architecture evolution, including API gateways, CI/CD modernization, security enhancements, and platform-wide improvements. • Comfortable working across multiple domains including AI, KYC, infrastructure, automation, change management, and can adapt quickly as priorities evolve. • Partners with diverse stakeholders across business units to align technology initiatives with organizational goals. • Keen eye for identifying inefficiencies and a passion for modernizing processes, tool chains, and developer workflows. • Debugs complex issues, providing technical leadership across stacks, and elevating engineering standards. • Excels at documentation and transparency, ensuring that experiments, decisions, and systems are well-understood across teams.

🏖️ 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.