Job description
ResponsibilitiesWhat you’ll get to do:Doing anything and everything it takes, to ensure your team is executing at a rapid pace, shipping fast, and with high quality.Scaling our back end services to handle millions of customers, and all aspects which come up when operating at this scale. Be it, figuring out how to authenticate users, keep the data secure, or to ensure the back-end services return success/failure responses in <.5 sec, for millions of customers.Deciding what structure of database do we want, and why, and more broadly guiding your engineers.Being a leader, and being able to handle the huge responsibility of ensuring the approach your team takes to build the next part of the product is the best one.Navigating through dependencies in a rapid pace environment Acting as an engineering manager. At least 60% of this role focuses on rolling up your sleeves and supporting your team.40% of the role is about stakeholder management - you will work collaboratively with the senior leadership, and every department in the company, to ensure everything is taken care of for your product to go live.Holding technical deep dives, and architecting the next part we'll build (others call these grooming meetings).At the end of the day, you are driving development of the product, anticipating issues before they happen, and making sure velocity and quality are top of mind, because the team needs to get newproducts out at a VERY FAST PACE, with quality always on top of mind.Work with data pipelines, algorithms, and automated systems.
Responsibilities & skills
Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle, from ideation, through development, to launch, growth and maintenanceProven ability to assess and address technical risksProven ability to facilitate the creation and maintenance of proper product documentation.
Education
Substantial, real experience in back-end engineering, and in managing back end services, at scale, as a back-end engineer, architect, or in a similar role.
Experience
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Moniepoint Incorporated
Moniepoint Incorporated is a global business payments and banking platform and recently became QED Investors’ first investment in Africa. We are the partner of choice for over 600,000 businesses of all sizes, powering the dreams of SMBs and providing them with equal access to the tools they need to grow and scale.
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