Engineering Manager

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Moniepoint Inc. (Formerly TeamApt Inc.)

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1001 - 5000 employees

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

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.

📋 Description

• Own end-to-end delivery and execution across cross-functional teams within the product area • Evaluate business and product requirements for technical feasibility and architectural alignment • Translate requirements into EPICs and technical user stories • Partner with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Engineers to refine, groom, and prioritize the backlog • Plan and drive sprint execution, timelines, milestones, and dependencies • Champion engineering processes and rituals supporting collaboration, accountability, and efficiency • Monitor team velocity and capacity and optimize resource allocation • Coordinate cross-team dependencies and stakeholder alignment • Guide design decisions, enforce sound design patterns, and participate in code reviews • Ensure monitoring, alerting, observability, and defined SLIs/SLOs for owned services • Define, track, and publish post-release product metrics with Product Managers • Manage and mentor engineers, conduct performance reviews, and foster team growth • Lead project status reviews and maintain communication between teams and leadership

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field • 8–10 years of experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer, or similar hands-on technical role • 5+ years of experience building production systems using Java and Spring Boot • Minimum 3 years of engineering leadership experience managing high-performing teams • Solid grasp of Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and iterative delivery • Ability to translate complex product requirements into EPICs, user stories, and tasks • Strong backend engineering expertise; frontend exposure is a plus • Experience with project planning and tracking tools • Familiarity with engineering and product health metrics and monitoring tools • Ability to debug complex production issues, lead incident response, and conduct blameless RCA • Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, release management, and associated metrics • Ability to drive alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders • Risk management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder communication skills • Track record of improving team velocity, delivery predictability, and engineering excellence • Problem-solving, communication, adaptability, and attention to detail • Experience managing and mentoring engineers • Ability to assess bandwidth and manage resource distribution • Experience conducting performance reviews and providing constructive feedback • Ability to lead project status reviews and manage stakeholder expectations

🏖️ Benefits

• People-first culture prioritizing team-member well-being • Learning and development-focused environment • Knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks • Attractive salary • Pension • Health insurance • Paid leave • Other benefits