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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

• Own and drive the technical roadmap and architecture, ensuring the design and operation of highly available, scalable systems (99.999%+ uptime) that support millions of daily transactions. • Design, build, and lead efficient engineering teams that can scale with the business. Establish and implement engineering processes that maximize execution speed, quality, and leverage. • Attract, retain, and develop senior engineering talent. Drive clear succession planning and actively mentor managers to grow into independent, high-impact leaders. • Tackle the most difficult technical and organizational challenges, breaking them down into core components and driving effective, practical, and timely resolution. • Actively partner with Product, Business Leaders, Compliance, and other Engineering teams to solve systemic problems across the organization and ensure technical strategy is aligned with business outcomes. • Embed best-in-class practices for reliability, observability, security, and compliance (e.g., PCI-DSS) by design into all engineering functions.

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in a Head, Director, CTO, or VP Engineering role at a high-growth company operating at significant scale. • Proven ability to operate as a Business Unit CTO, balancing technical debt, innovation, and rapid delivery. • Deep expertise in Systems Architecture, Scalability, and Reliability (distributed systems, high-throughput APIs, high-availability design). • Demonstrated experience in Engineering Process & Team Design, including successfully leading teams through periods of high growth and process maturation. • A strong track record of Impact Through Leverage—improving throughput and quality through technical/process innovation, rather than solely increasing headcount.

🏖️ 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.