Senior Backend Engineer (R&D)

Moniepoint is one of Africa’s fastest-growing fintech companies, recognized for its innovative financial ecosystem. The Senior Backend Engineer (R&D) will collaborate on ideation, design scalable backend systems, and drive initiatives that enhance the company's technical strategy and innovation efforts.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• 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