Moniepoint is a financial technology company digitising Africa’s real economy by building a financial ecosystem for businesses, providing them with all the payment, banking, credit and business management tools they need to succeed.
About the role
- Engineering at Moniepoint is an inspired, customer-focused community committed to pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Our R&D team takes this even further—leading exploration, experimentation, and innovation efforts that inform the entire organization.
- Our Research & Development (R&D) team operates at the group level, driving innovation, guiding technical strategy, and shaping the next generation of financial technology across all our business units.
- This is a rare opportunity to work at the center of our most forward-thinking initiatives, helping us imagine, design, and build what comes next. You will work on projects that span multiple domains, from designing next-generation architectures to powering new business lines, modernizing infrastructure, and shaping future-facing strategies around AI, security, KYC, automation, and more.
- If you’re excited about solving complex problems, experimenting with cutting-edge technologies, and building the future of fintech from the ground up, this role is for you.
What You'll Be Doing
- Collaborate on ideation, prototyping, and execution of new revenue-generating products and businesses.
- Lead early-stage technical design and market-fit experiments.
- Design scalable, production-ready backend systems.
- Spearhead key initiatives such as implementing an API Gateway, rethinking architecture patterns, and modernizing our CI/CD and security infrastructure.
- Contribute to group-wide strategies in areas like AI adoption, KYC modernization, change management, and long-term technical planning.
- Partner with multiple business units to align R&D outcomes with group objectives.
- Identify inefficiencies and transform existing workflows, systems, and tools to boost operational excellence.
- Drive developer experience improvements through automation, refactoring, and standardization.
- Assess, experiment with, and recommend emerging technologies for adoption across the organization.
- Support engineering teams with innovation initiatives and guide toolchain modernization.
- Write clean, maintainable, well-documented code with a focus on reliability and testability.
- Debug complex issues and provide technical guidance across multiple stacks.
- Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Document systems, decisions, experiments, and methodologies to support transparency across teams.
What We're Looking For
- We’re seeking innovative, curious, and highly skilled engineers who are driven to build what doesn’t yet exist. You thrive at the intersection of research and execution while being comfortable exploring cutting-edge ideas and grounding them in strong engineering principles.
- Strong backend engineering expertise, with the ability to design and implement scalable, reliable systems from scratch.
- Energized by ideation, rapid prototyping, and validating new business opportunities through technical experimentation.
- Strategic mindset and can contribute to architecture evolution, including API gateways, CI/CD modernization, security enhancements, and platform-wide improvements.
- Comfortable working across multiple domains including AI, KYC, infrastructure, automation, change management, and can adapt quickly as priorities evolve.
- Partners with diverse stakeholders across business units to align technology initiatives with organizational goals.
- Keen eye for identifying inefficiencies and a passion for modernizing processes, tool chains, and developer workflows.
- Debugs complex issues, providing technical leadership across stacks, and elevating engineering standards.
- Excels at documentation and transparency, ensuring that experiments, decisions, and systems are well-understood across teams.
Method of Application
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