Engineering Manager

About the role

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 Poland

Poland is a new and deliberate addition to our engineering map. We recently made our first technology hire in the country, and we see it as a long-term strategic location for senior hires, particularly within engineering. Joining now means joining early, and helping shape what our presence here becomes. So, now we are looking for our Engineering Managers to join us in Poland.

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.