Moniepoint Inc. (Formerly TeamApt Inc.)

Engineering Team Lead

Moniepoint Inc. (Formerly TeamApt Inc.)

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇳🇬 Nigeria

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

CloudDistributed SystemsGoogle Cloud PlatformJavaKubernetesMicroservicesMySQLNoSQLPostgresSpringSpring BootSpringBootSQL

About the role

  • Architect and deliver scalable, secure systems for financial transactions, payments, and data processing.
  • Guide technical design discussions, ensuring system performance, resilience, and maintainability.
  • Enforce best practices in code quality, testing, observability, and system reliability.
  • Stay up to date with emerging fintech technologies (APIs, open banking, fraud detection, blockchain) and lead adoption where relevant.
  • Participate in code reviews and contribute to critical components and services.
  • Lead, mentor, and grow a team of engineers—developing both their technical and leadership capabilities.
  • Collaborate closely with Product, Risk, and Compliance teams to balance innovation with regulatory and security requirements.
  • Facilitate sprint planning, retrospectives, and technical discussions to keep the team aligned and focused.
  • Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.
  • Own the end-to-end delivery of projects—from design and development to deployment and monitoring.
  • Ensure uptime, fault tolerance, and operational excellence for mission-critical financial systems.
  • Balance short-term delivery priorities with long-term technical sustainability.
  • Proactively identify risks (security, compliance, scalability) and implement mitigation strategies.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including 2+ years in a technical leadership role.
  • Proven experience building and maintaining distributed systems at scale.
  • Strong backend development skills in Java, Springboot
  • Deep understanding of microservices, APIs, cloud infrastructure (GCP / any), and CI/CD pipelines with Kubernetes.
  • Solid knowledge of databases (Relational/NoSQL), caching, and asynchronous processing.
  • Familiarity with security best practices, encryption, and compliance standards (PCI-DSS, SOC 2, GDPR).
  • Experience working in FinTech, banking, or other regulated environments is a plus.
Benefits
  • Culture - We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.
  • Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
  • Compensation - You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, paid leave, plus other benefits.

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Hard skills
JavaSpringbootmicroservicesAPIscloud infrastructureGCPKubernetesCI/CD pipelinesdatabasesasynchronous processing
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingaccountabilitycontinuous improvementtechnical designrisk identificationteam alignment
Certifications
PCI-DSSSOC 2GDPR