Head of Engineering

Who we are

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. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually.

About the role

As a Head of Engineering, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the entire technical landscape of our engineering organization. You will guide and lead engineering managers and their teams while ensuring we are building scalable, secure, and innovative architectures. Working closely with business leaders and engineering managers (EMs), you will help align our technical vision with business goals and ensure a smooth pipeline from coding to deployment. The role is hands-on, requiring a mix of leadership, technical expertise, and operational excellence.

We are looking for someone who has a strong engineering background, leadership skills, and a passion for fostering collaboration and trust within teams. You will be accountable for setting technical standards, addressing technical debt, mentoring teams, and ensuring the scalability and security of the product's architecture. In addition, you will oversee team development, recruitment, and performance management to build high-performing teams capable of delivering results on time.

What you’ll get to do

• Contribute to and drive the company-wide technology strategy, ensuring the platform and broader business systems are prepared to scale reliably across markets, products, and growing transaction volumes.
• Own the technical strategy across the ecosystem, aligning architecture, infrastructure, and delivery with company goals for reliability, scalability, security, and regulatory compliance.
• Guide architectural and solution design decisions across teams, removing technical roadblocks for Engineers, and ensuring robust, future-proof system and software architecture.
• Build, lead, and scale multiple high-performing engineering teams, including managers and senior individual contributors.
• Strengthen team capacity and capability through proactive mentorship, structured career development, succession planning, and rigorous performance management.
• Drive hiring strategy and org design to support near-term and medium-term growth of the engineering organization.
• Establish and continuously improve end-to-end observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management frameworks to support high system availability (targeting 99.9999%+ uptime).
• Improve software reliability across the platform by implementing strong operational excellence practices and incident response mechanisms.
• Set and uphold high standards for engineering excellence, including code quality, testing, QA automation, documentation, and CI/CD pipeline maturity.
• Proactively manage and reduce technical debt while leading company-wide initiatives to improve overall codebase health and maintainability.
• Improve methodologies and systems for tracking engineering metrics, system health, team performance, and developer productivity.
• Define, track, and optimize KPIs such as system performance, transaction success rates, infrastructure efficiency, cost optimization, and team velocity.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure usage and costs while maintaining performance, reliability, and security standards.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Sales, Marketing, and Business stakeholders to ensure engineering delivery aligns with company priorities and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure systems are secure-by-design, with strong ownership of data protection and compliance.