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Engineering Manager (Remote)
About this role
This role is for an Engineering Manager who will guide delivery across cross-functional teams in Lagos (remote). The position focuses on translating product requirements into actionable work, maintaining technical standards, and ensuring timely, high-quality feature delivery. You will work with product managers, designers, QA, and engineers, mentor the team, and ensure insights from monitoring and metrics drive improvements. You will stay hands-on on critical initiatives, participate in design decisions, and oversee deployment and incidents as needed. The employer is Moniepoint Incorporated, a global business payments and banking platform with a presence in Africa and a growing customer base.
What you would do
- Manage end-to-end delivery across cross-functional teams within your product area.
- Translate product requirements into EPICs and technical user stories.
- Collaborate with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Engineers to groom and prioritise the backlog.
- Plan and drive sprint execution with defined goals and timelines.
- Champion engineering processes and rituals to boost collaboration and accountability.
- Monitor team velocity and capacity to optimise resource allocation.
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies and stakeholder alignment to remove bottlenecks.
- Provide hands-on input on design decisions and participate in code reviews.
- Ensure robust monitoring, alerting and observability for owned services with defined SLIs/SLOs.
- Partner with Product Managers to track post-release product metrics and drive continuous improvement.
What they are asking for
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
- 8–10 years of hands-on software development experience.
- 5+ years leading high-performing engineering teams.
- Strong backend expertise with Java and Spring Boot; frontend experience is a plus.
- Proficiency in Agile methodologies and backlog management.
- Experience translating product requirements into EPICs and tasks.
- Experience with project planning tools and delivery tracking.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools and data-informed decision making.
- Hands-on debugging, incident response, and blameless RCA experience.
- Knowledge of CI/CD, release management, and deployment practices.
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