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