Engineering Manager

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. Why Kenya Kenya is where our next chapter begins. Following our acquisition of Sumac Microfinance Bank, we're preparing to go live — which means the people we hire here help build a business from its first day, not inherit one. How we execute in Kenya will shape how we approach every market we enter after it, making this one of the most consequential engineering mandates in the business right now. This is the natural extension of our mission: to drive financial inclusion, and help millions of business owners and individuals across the African continent achieve financial happiness and success. So, now we are looking for our Engineering Manager to join us in Kenya About the role As an Engineering Manager, you will drive the successful delivery and execution of projects within your teams. You will manage end-to-end technical planning, ensuring that product requirements are translated into actionable tasks, while orchestrating collaboration between various stakeholders, including engineers, product managers, QA, and UX. This role requires a deep understanding of software design and development and the ability to plan, execute, and deliver product features in a timely and predictable manner. You will also be responsible for maintaining high technical standards, managing team bandwidth, and ensuring project milestones are met with efficiency and accuracy. What you’ll get to do • Own end-to-end delivery and execution across cross-functional teams within your product area, ensuring predictable and high-quality outcomes. • Evaluate business and product requirements for technical feasibility and architectural alignment, translating them into well-defined EPICs and technical user stories. • Partner closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Engineers to continuously refine, groom, and prioritize the backlog. • Plan and drive sprint execution with clearly defined goals, using project planning tools to establish timelines, delivery milestones, and surface dependencies early. • Champion engineering processes and rituals that enable strong collaboration, accountability, and team efficiency. • Monitor team velocity and capacity to optimize resource allocation, proactively balancing bandwidth against delivery commitments. • Coordinate cross-team dependencies and stakeholder alignment to remove bottlenecks and maintain smooth execution. • Stay hands-on in critical initiatives by guiding design decisions, enforcing sound design patterns, and participating in code reviews to maintain high engineering quality. • Ensure robust monitoring, alerting, and observability for all owned services, consistently meeting defined SLIs and SLOs. • Partner with Product Managers to define, track, and publish post-release product metrics, driving transparency and continuous improvement. To succeed in this role, you should have • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field. • 8-10 years of experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer, or in a similar hands-on technical role. • 5+ years of strong experience building production systems using Java and Spring Boot. • Minimum 3 years of proven engineering leadership experience managing high-performing teams. • Solid grasp of Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and iterative delivery. • Demon