Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway

Moniepoint Inc., Africa’s leading all-in-one financial platform, serves over 20 million businesses and individuals by providing seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management solutions. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, Moniepoint processes more than $250 billion in digital payment transactions annually. With a rapidly expanding technology team in Pakistan—the company’s third-largest hub—and significant career growth opportunities, Moniepoint is seeking a Head of Engineering for its Payment Gateway division. This role will lead the technical vision and architecture of Monnify, Moniepoint’s online payment acceptance platform that connects merchants to card networks, banks, and payment aggregators. The platform ensures transaction reliability, routing efficiency, throughput, and a superior developer experience, while expanding internationally with multi-currency and multi-market capabilities.

Key Responsibilities
- Own the complete technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Monnify platform across all functional areas.
- Lead multiple engineering teams through their managers, setting quality standards and enhancing organizational capabilities.
- Manage the end-to-end developer experience, including APIs, SDKs, documentation, and ease of integration.
- Drive platform evolution toward multi-currency support and international scalability.
- Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and security within a regulated environment.
- Collaborate closely with product, commercial, and operations teams to align technical investments with business goals.
- Hire, mentor, and develop engineering managers and senior engineers to support team growth and performance.

Required Qualifications
- Over 10 years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in engineering leadership roles.
- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on, production-level experience writing and shipping Java code.
- At least 5 years managing engineering managers and leading multiple teams through other leaders rather than direct individual contributor management.
- Experience in payments, fintech, or financial services, with a strong understanding of payment flows and regulatory compliance.
- Deep expertise in API-first products, developer platforms, and API integration.
- Proven success leading multiple engineering teams in a scaling organization.
- Strong backend engineering skills focused on high-throughput, distributed transactional systems.

Preferred Qualifications and Benefits
- Experience building or operating a payment gateway or multi-currency payment platform is highly advantageous.
- Technologies include Java (latest versions), Spring and Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, and microservices architecture on AWS.
- Opportunity to own and shape payments infrastructure relied upon by thousands of businesses and developers, within a company processing hundreds of billions of dollars annually.
- Work in a fast-paced, technically challenging environment at the forefront of financial services innovation in emerging markets.
- Join a mission-driven company dedicated to expanding financial access for millions across Africa and beyond.
- Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion, fostering a welcoming environment for all employees and candidates.

Moniepoint values leaders who demonstrate customer obsession, craftsmanship, systemization, urgency, ownership, humility, candor, and integrity. Ideal candidates exhibit deep empathy for users, master fundamentals, build scalable systems, act with disciplined speed, take initiative, prioritize team success over ego, communicate openly about risks, and uphold ethical standards.

The hiring process includes a preliminary recruiter call, panel interviews with senior engineering leaders, a technical assessment and workshop with the Group CTO/co-founder, followed by behavioral and technical interviews with the Group CEO/founder.