Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway

About this job

<p><strong>Who We Are</strong></p> <p>Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month. </p> <p>As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions.

Key details

• Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually.<span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><strong>About The Role</strong></p> <p>Monnify is Moniepoint's online payment acceptance platform: the gateway layer connecting merchants to card networks, banks and payment aggregators, and the tools that let businesses and developers accept and send money digitally.
• The division owns transaction reliability, routing and throughput at scale, together with the developer experience that sits on top of it - APIs, SDKs, documentation and ease of integration.
• Built first for Nigerian businesses and developers, the platform is now scaling internationally and moving towards multi-currency, multi-market support.</p> <p>The Head of Engineering owns the technical direction and architecture of that platform, ensuring scalability, security and developer experience for both technical and non-technical users.
• The role involves leading multiple engineering teams through their managers, setting strategic architecture, and ensuring platform reliability, security and scalability across Payment In, Payout, Commerce Tools and developer-facing features.
• As the Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway, your responsibilities will include:</p> <ul> <li>Own the full technical strategy, architecture and roadmap for the Monnify platform across all capability areas.</li> <li>Lead multiple engineering teams through engineering managers, setting quality standards and building organisational capability.</li> <li>Own the developer experience end-to-end, including APIs, documentation, SDKs and integration ease.</li> <li>Drive platform evolution towards multi-currency and international scalability.</li> <li>Ensure platform reliability, scalability and security within a regulated environment.</li> <li>Partner with product, commercial and operations teams to align technical investments with business goals.</li> <li>Hire, mentor and develop engineering managers and senior engineers to support growth.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are</strong></p> <ul> <li>Over 10 years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in engineering leadership roles.</li> <li>5+ years of hands-on, production-level experience writing and shipping Java code as a practising engineer.
• This means years spent writing Java yourself, not only years spent overseeing teams who write it.</li> <li>At least 5 years of experience managing managers - leading an engineering organisation through other engineering leaders, rather than running a single team.</li> <li>Experience in payments, fintech or financial services products, with a working understanding of payment flows and compliance.</li> <li>Deep knowledge of API-first products, developer platforms and API integration.</li> <li>Proven leadership of multiple engineering teams via managers in a scaling organisation.</li> <li>Strong backend engineering skills in high-throughput, distributed transactional systems.</li> <li>Experience building or operating a payment gateway or multi-currency payment platform is a strong plus.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Cultural Alignment</strong></p> <p>As well, we assess every candidate across eight dimensions that define how great leaders operate at Moniepoint.
• We look for evidence of all eight throughout the process, not just in a single conversation.</p> <ul> <li>Customer Obsession: Build deep empathy for users.
• Solve problems intuitively, and fix root causes, not just tickets.</li> <li>Craft: Master the fundamentals.
• Reason from first principles, make trade-offs explicit, and raise the bar on quality.</li> <li>Systemisation: Turn repeating decisions into scalable mechanisms.
• Reduce cognitive load and raise engineering quality.</li> <li>Urgency: Move with disciplined speed.
• Act autonomously within scope, remove friction, and escalate risks early.</li> <li>Ownership: Treat the platform as your own.
• Take initiative across boundaries and follow through without reminders.</li> <li>No Ego: Put the mission first.
• Share credit, welcome debate, and never protect status over team outcomes.</li> <li>Candour: Surface uncomfortable truths and risks early.
• Intelligent failure is welcome; concealment is not.</li> <li>Integrity: Stay truthful and ethically consistent.
• Refuse toxic behavior.
• Performance without integrity is unacceptable.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What To Expect In The Hiring Process </strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A preliminary phone call with the recruiter</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Panel interview session with two of our VPs of Engineering</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Technical Assessment with our Group CTO / Co-founder </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A Behavioral and technical interview with our Group CEO / Founder</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Technical Workshop with our Group CTO / Co-founder</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Some of the technologies you’ll get to work with</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Java (latest versions)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Spring and Spring Boot</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Docker and Kubernetes</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elastic search</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Microservices architecture on AWS</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>What we can offer you</strong></p> <ul> <li>Own the payments infrastructure that thousands of businesses and developers build on, at a company processing hundreds of billions of dollars in transaction volume annually.</li> <li>Work in a fast-paced, technically demanding environment at the core of how money moves in high-growth markets.</li> <li>Be part of a mission-driven company expanding access to financial services for millions of businesses and individuals.</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer.
• We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.</span></p>