Engineering Manager (Site Reliability)
Moniepoint
IndiaremotePosted 27 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Africa's all-in-one financial platform serving 20 million businesses and individuals monthly
- Processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually
- Minimum 8 years as a Software Developer/Engineer, 5+ years Node.js/Python, 3+ years leadership
- Minimum 8 years of software development experience required
- BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field required
- Pension, health insurance, and paid leave offered
Role overview
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, it powers most of the country's point-of-sale (POS) transactions and processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually through its subsidiaries. As an Engineering Manager, you will drive the successful delivery and execution of projects within your teams, managing end-to-end technical planning and orchestrating collaboration between engineers, product managers, QA, and UX. You will own delivery within the Site Reliability Engineering tooling team, maintain high technical standards, and ensure project milestones are met with efficiency and accuracy.
Responsibilities
- Own delivery and execution within the Site Reliability Engineering tooling team
- Evaluate product requirements for feasibility and ensure they align with the existing product architecture, translating them into EPICs and technical stories
- Work closely with Product Managers and Engineers to refine and groom tasks
- Plan and organize sprints with clearly defined goals, using project planning tools to establish timelines, delivery milestones, and identify task dependencies early
- Foster engineering processes that promote seamless collaboration and teamwork
- Track team velocity to ensure resources are effectively allocated, balancing bandwidth with task demands
- Coordinate alignment and manage dependencies across multiple stakeholders to prevent bottlenecks and ensure smooth execution
- Contribute to critical projects by ensuring appropriate design patterns and coding techniques are applied
- Remain hands-on, participating in code reviews to uphold high-quality standards
- Ensure monitoring and observability are in place for all owned services, meeting defined SLIs/SLOs
- Partner with Product Managers to track and publish post-deployment product metrics, ensuring transparency with key stakeholders
- Debug complex technical issues during incidents to identify solutions and run blameless RCA sessions
- Drive alignment across diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Manage dependencies, mitigate risks, and communicate clearly with stakeholders
- Improve team velocity and foster efficient delivery
- Manage and mentor engineers, ensuring team growth and performance
- Assess bandwidth and manage resource distribution to optimize team performance
- Conduct regular performance reviews, providing constructive feedback and fostering a growth-oriented environment
- Lead project status reviews, manage expectations, and ensure smooth communication between teams and leadership
Requirements
- Minimum of 8 years of experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer, or similar role
- 5+ years of Node JS / python experience
- A minimum of 3 years of leadership experience
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies, sprint planning, and backlog management
- Expertise in breaking down complex product requirements into structured EPICs, Stories, and Tasks
- Solid experience with backend technologies
- Knowledge of project planning tools for visualizing and tracking delivery timelines
- Familiarity with engineering metrics and monitoring tools to assess team performance and product health
- Understanding of deployment pipelines, continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), and their corresponding metrics
- BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Problem-solving ability to assess complex problems, find solutions, and make sound decisions
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including technical documentation and stakeholder reporting
- Adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment and adjust strategies as needed
- Meticulous attention to detail in documenting technical requirements and ensuring all aspects of a project are accounted for
Nice to have
- Experience with frontend
Benefits
- People-first culture where all opinions carry weight and all voices are heard; the company values and respects team members and prioritizes well-being
- Learning and development-focused environment with emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks
- Attractive salary
- Pension
- Health insurance
- Paid leave
- Equal opportunity employer celebrating diversity and committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates
Additional details
- The hiring process includes: a preliminary phone call with a recruiter, a live coding and code review session, a system design and technical discussion round, a project planning execution and product thinking round, and a behavioral and technical interview with the hiring manager
- Originally posted on Himalayas