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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

• Champion secure innovation by embedding security into the software development lifecycle. • Partner with engineering teams to safeguard customer trust while building services. • Shape secure design through threat modeling and code review. • Drive efficiency via security automation. • Mentor developers to elevate the security posture. • Define and execute security strategy for product teams, aligning with business objectives. • Lead threat modeling, security architecture reviews, and design guidance for software projects. • Conduct adversarial security analysis using automated tools and manual techniques. • Perform manual/automated secure code reviews across Java, Python, JavaScript, and cloud-native stacks. • Develop security automation tools to scale vulnerability detection. • Identify complex risks through offensive security research; advocate for cutting-edge mitigation technologies. • Solve novel security problems lacking predefined solutions. • Maintain and evolve threat models for critical applications and microservices architectures. • Partner with the engineering team to embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and development practices. • Design/deliver security training programs tailored to development teams and stakeholders. • Lead incident response for application security events and drive root-cause analysis.

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years in application security, including 2+ years in a senior/lead role. • Expertise in threat modeling (e.g., STRIDE, PASTA), penetration testing, and secure SDLC implementation. Proficiency in code review for Java/Python/JavaScript and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP). • Hands-on experience building security tools (e.g., scanners, CI plugins) with Python/Go. • Proven track record in security architecture design and risk-based decision-making. • OSCP, OSCE, GXPN, or similar offensive security certifications preferred. • Contributions to security tooling/open-source projects preferred. • Experience with container security (Kubernetes, Docker), serverless, or infrastructure-as-code preferred.

🏖️ 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, Employee Stock Options, annual bonus, plus other benefits.