Engineering Manager – Payments

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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

• Lead, mentor, and grow a world-class engineering team building scalable payment products and platforms. • Provide architectural guidance on backend and distributed systems powering high-throughput payments. • Drive initiatives that identify bottlenecks and implement engineering solutions that scale reliably and securely. • Own complex projects end-to-end, from ideation to launch, with a focus on outcomes and measurable impact. • Manage delivery schedules, technical roadmaps, and project timelines with clarity and discipline. • Guide the team through ambiguity, operational challenges, and mission-critical situations. • Partner closely with product, design, data, compliance, and operations to ship high-impact features. • Align engineering decisions with business priorities and user needs. • Communicate technical challenges, trade-offs, and priorities to non-technical stakeholders. • Mentor engineers into senior roles and emerging team leads through structured development practices. • Handle interpersonal, technical, and cross-functional conflicts with maturity and transparency. • Support the team during periods of ambiguity or high-critical operational pressure. • Work effectively with teams distributed across time zones.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software development experience with deep exposure to large-scale, distributed systems (e.g., millions of financial transactions per day). • Strong technical depth in backend architecture, distributed systems, data consistency, reliability, and scalability. • Proven experience owning or designing systems responsible for financial flows, real-time data, or mission-critical transactions. • Ability to navigate trade-offs and guide teams through complex technical decisions. • 2-3+ years as an Engineering Manager or Technical Lead with people-management responsibilities. • Experience growing and mentoring engineering teams, especially in fintech or payments. • Comfortable leading teams across time zones and managing distributed execution. • Track record of delivering significant features or platforms in close collaboration with product, business, and design. • Ability to articulate technical considerations in business terms and align teams toward shared outcomes. • Skilled at balancing technical debt, delivery pressure, and long-term platform health. • Exceptional communicator able to simplify complexity and provide clarity in decision-making. • Experience resolving conflicts, technical disagreements, interpersonal issues, and stakeholder misalignment with fairness. • Ability to maintain team morale and alignment during stressful or fast-changing situations. • BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.

🏖️ 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.