Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway

Moniepoint Group
London
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Ownership","Customer obsession","Integrity","Candour"]

Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Monnify payment gateway platform. Own developer experience end-to-end across APIs, SDKs, documentation, and integration ease, while driving reliability, scalability, and security in a regulated environment. You’ll lead multiple engineering teams through managers, raise quality standards, and evolve the platform toward multi-currency and international scalability, partnering across product, commercial, and operations.

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Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway

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Job Summary

Lead the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Monnify payment gateway platform. Own developer experience end-to-end across APIs, SDKs, documentation, and integration ease, while driving reliability, scalability, and security in a regulated environment. You’ll lead multiple engineering teams through managers, raise quality standards, and evolve the platform toward multi-currency and international scalability, partnering across product, commercial, and operations.
Location: London
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the full technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Monnify platform across all capability areas.
  • •Lead multiple engineering teams through engineering managers, setting quality standards and building organisational capability.
  • •Own developer experience end-to-end, including APIs, documentation, SDKs, and integration ease.
  • •Drive platform evolution toward multi-currency and international scalability.
  • •Ensure platform reliability, scalability, and security within a regulated environment while partnering with product, commercial, and operations.

Key Requirements

  • •Over 10 years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in engineering leadership roles.
  • •At least 5 years of hands-on, production-level experience writing and shipping Java code as a practising engineer.
  • •At least 5 years of experience managing managers, leading an engineering organisation through other engineering leaders.
  • •Experience in payments, fintech, or financial services products, including a working understanding of payment flows and compliance.
  • •Deep knowledge of API-first products, developer platforms, and API integration; strong backend skills for high-throughput distributed transactional systems.
Experience:10+ yearsPaymentsFintechFinancial servicesAPI-firstDeveloper platformMicroservicesAWSDistributed systems
Skills:LeadershipOwnershipCustomer obsessionIntegrityCandour
Tech Stack:JavaSpringSpring BootDockerKubernetesPostgreSQLDynamoDBElasticsearchMicroservices architectureAWS

Company Brief

Moniepoint Group
Provides digital payments, merchant services, agent banking, card issuance, and business banking solutions across Nigeria and other African markets, serving SMEs, merchants, and financial institutions with technology-first transaction and banking infrastructure.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Lagos, Nigeria
Founded: 2015
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