Engineering Manager - R&DRemote

Engineering Manager - R&D

Who We Are

Moniepoint is an all-in-one financial services platform for emerging markets and the second-fastest growing company in Africa. Since 2019, Moniepoint's technology has powered over 3 million people, offering personal and business banking, payment, credit, and business management tools to help them succeed. Moniepoint processed $182 billion in 2023 and currently processes most of the POS transactions in Nigeria.

About the Role

As an Engineering Manager at Moniepoint, you will manage and guide a dynamic engineering team that crafts solutions that challenge the industry. You will take the roadmap from your product / business manager and define the technical road, manage the implementation architecture to deployment. You will be your craft guide for the engineers you will orchestrate the day-to-day operations of the team across the entire stack. Your team will consist of frontend engineers, backend engineers, and data engineers, each coming from a different background as we strive for global expansion in talent. Be prepared to be a critical thinker from an eagle-eye view all the way down to being able to review merge requests and help solve coding problems.

What You'll Get To Do

• Ensure rapid and high-quality execution of your team, shipping products at a fast pace.
• Scale our back-end services to handle millions of customers and address challenges associated with operating at this scale.
• Make critical decisions on database structure, providing guidance to your engineers, and serving as a leader in ensuring best practices are taken in product development.
• Navigate dependencies in a fast-paced environment with a significant focus on at least 60% hands-on support for your team.
• Collaborate with senior leadership and various departments to ensure seamless product launch and post-launch support.
• Hold technical deep dives, architecting the next phases of development, and driving the overall development of the product.
• Work with data pipelines, algorithms, and automated systems to enhance product capabilities.
• Translate product requirements into architectural documents and diagrams.
• Maintain architectural documents and ensure they are always updated to reflect the current state of the application.
• Make architectural decisions concerning any feature that's to be added to an application.
• Ensure that the architectural direction of an application is in line with the strategic direction of the product.
• Perform code reviews and ensure efficient code engineering.
• Ensure applications are implemented using software engineering best practices.
• Responsible for the stability and reliability of products under your purview.
• Create and enforce processes that will improve developer efficiency and productivity.
• Take an active role in scaling the team, interviewing, and hiring engineers.

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Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.