About this role
Engineering Manager (Remote) at Moniepoint Incorporated. The role involves maintaining high technical standards, managing team bandwidth, and ensuring timely delivery of product features. You will plan and execute end-to-end technical work, translate requirements into actionable tasks, and coordinate with engineers, product managers, QA, and UX to deliver projects. The position requires hands-on technical leadership, strong backend expertise, and experience with Java and Spring Boot, with a focus on delivery, metrics, and process improvement. The role is based remotely with Lagos mentioned as location in the advert and involves cross-functional collaboration to drive project milestones and continuous improvement.
What you would do
- Ensure monitoring, alerting, and observability for all owned services with defined SLIs and SLOs.
- Translate business and product requirements into EPICs and technical user stories.
- Champion engineering processes and rituals to improve collaboration and accountability.
- Own end-to-end delivery across cross-functional teams within the product area.
- Define and track post-release product metrics with Product Managers.
- Plan and drive sprint execution with clear goals and timelines.
- Coordinate cross-team dependencies and align stakeholders to remove bottlenecks.
- Refine, groom, and prioritise the backlog with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Engineers.
- Monitor team velocity and capacity to optimise resource allocation.
- Guide design decisions, review code, and maintain high engineering quality on critical initiatives.
What they are asking for
- 8 - 10 years of experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer or similar hands-on role.
- 5+ years of experience building production systems using Java and Spring Boot.
- Proven ability to improve team velocity, delivery predictability, and engineering excellence.
- Ability to align cross-functional stakeholders (technical and non-technical).
- Experience translating complex product requirements into EPICs, user stories, and tasks.
- Minimum 3 years of engineering leadership managing high-performing teams.
- Hands-on capability to debug production issues, lead incident response, and conduct blameless RCA.
- Strong backend engineering expertise; frontend exposure is a plus.
- Solid knowledge of Agile methodologies and sprint planning.
- Excellent risk management, dependency tracking, and stakeholder communication.
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