Head of Engineering – Payment Gateway

🕒 September 9

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 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 the full technical strategy, architecture and roadmap for the Monnify payment platform • Lead multiple engineering teams through engineering managers • Set quality standards and build organisational capability • Own developer experience, including APIs, documentation, SDKs and integration ease • Drive platform evolution toward multi-currency and international scalability • Ensure reliability, scalability and security in a regulated environment • Partner with product, commercial and operations teams to align technical investments with business goals • Hire, mentor and develop engineering managers and senior engineers • Lead payment infrastructure across Payment In, Payout, Commerce Tools and developer-facing features

🎯 Requirements

• Over 10 years of software engineering experience • At least 5 years in engineering leadership roles • 5+ years of hands-on, production-level experience writing and shipping Java • At least 5 years of experience managing managers • Experience in payments, fintech or financial services products • Working understanding of payment flows and compliance • Deep knowledge of API-first products, developer platforms and API integration • Proven leadership of multiple engineering teams via managers in a scaling organisation • Strong backend engineering skills in high-throughput, distributed transactional systems • Experience building or operating a payment gateway or multi-currency payment platform is a strong plus • Technologies include Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, microservices architecture and AWS

🏖️ Benefits

• Own the payments infrastructure used by thousands of businesses and developers • Work in a fast-paced, technically demanding environment at the core of money movement in high-growth markets • Mission-driven company expanding access to financial services for millions of businesses and individuals • Equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion