Engineering Team Lead

Engineering Team Lead

As a Team Lead (Engineering), you'll lead a small team of 2–5 engineers while remaining hands-on in designing and delivering secure, scalable, and reliable systems. You will be pivotal in driving engineering excellence, ensuring compliance with financial standards, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment. You'll balance technical execution with people leadership, mentoring your team, shaping architecture, and ensuring projects are delivered with quality and speed.

Technical Leadership

• 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.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

• 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.

Delivery & Execution

• 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.

To succeed in this role, you should have

• 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.

What We Can Offer You

• 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.

What To Expect In The Hiring Process

• A preliminary phone call with one of our recruiters.
• Hacker rank Assessment Test
• Round 1: Coding Interview- Algorithm & DS, Databases, Principles & Patterns
• Round 2: Software Design & Technical Deep Dive
• Round 3: Hiring Manager Interview

Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.