Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway

Job Application for Head of Engineering, Supply Chain at Moniepoint; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Moniepoint is seeking a Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway, to define the technical direction for Monnify and to scale the gateway platform internationally. You will own architecture, security and reliability while leading multiple engineering teams through managers, and align tech investments with business goals.

You will guide the developer experience, APIs, documentation and integration tooling, and drive multi-currency support as the platform expands beyond Nigeria into new markets.

Qualifications

• Over 10 years in software engineering with hands-on practice.
• At least 5 years leading engineering managers and teams.
• Experience in payments, fintech or financial services.
• Strong knowledge of API-first products and developer platforms.
• Backend expertise in high-throughput distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy, architecture and roadmap for the platform across capabilities.
• Lead multiple engineering teams via managers; set quality standards.
• Own developer experience including APIs, docs and SDKs.
• Drive multi-currency, international scalability and platform evolution.
• Ensure reliability, security and compliance in a regulated environment.
• Partner with product, commercial and operations to align tech investments.
• Hire, mentor and grow engineering managers and senior engineers.

Skills

Software engineering

Java

Leadership of managers

Payments/fintech

API-first platforms

Backend, distributed systems

Multi-currency/platform scale

Job description

Who We Are

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa's all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month.

As Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country's point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually.

Why United Kingdom

The UK is home to our headquarters where more than 70 team members are based. Our London office is located at Sea Containers, just by London Bridge - this is also where a significant number of our most senior leaders sit, which makes it a natural base for a Head of Engineering.

So, now we are looking for our Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway to join us in the UK.

About The Role

Monnify is Moniepoint's online payment acceptance platform: the gateway layer connecting merchants to card networks, banks and payment aggregators, and the tools that let businesses and developers accept and send money digitally. The division owns transaction reliability, routing and throughput at scale, together with the developer experience that sits on top of it - APIs, SDKs, documentation and ease of integration. Built first for Nigerian businesses and developers, the platform is now scaling internationally and moving towards multi-currency, multi-market support.

The Head of Engineering owns the technical direction and architecture of that platform, ensuring scalability, security and developer experience for both technical and non-technical users. The role involves leading multiple engineering teams through their managers, setting strategic architecture, and ensuring platform reliability, security and scalability across Payment In, Payout, Commerce Tools and developer-facing features. As the Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway, your responsibilities will include:

• 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 the developer experience end-to-end, including APIs, documentation, SDKs and integration ease.
• Drive platform evolution towards multi-currency and international scalability.
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability and security within a regulated environment.
• Partner with product, commercial and operations teams to align technical investments with business goals.
• Hire, mentor and develop engineering managers and senior engineers to support growth.

Who You Are

Over 10 years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in engineering leadership roles.

• 5+ years of hands‑on, production‑level experience writing and shipping Java code as a practising engineer. This means years spent writing Java yourself, not only years spent overseeing teams who write it.
• At least 5 years of experience managing managers - leading an engineering organisation through other engineering leaders, rather than running a single team.
• Experience in payments, fintech or financial services products, with a working understanding of payment flows and compliance.
• Deep knowledge of API‑first products, developer platforms and API integration.
• Proven leadership of multiple engineering teams via managers in a scaling organisation.
• Strong backend engineering skills in high‑throughput, distributed transactional systems.
• Experience building or operating a payment gateway or multi‑currency payment platform is a strong plus.

Cultural Alignment

As well, we assess every candidate across eight dimensions that define how great leaders operate at Moniepoint. We look for evidence of all eight throughout the process, not just in a single conversation.

Customer Obsession: Build deep empathy for users. Solve...

Craft: Master the fundamentals. Reason from first principles, make trade-offs explicit, and raise the bar on quality.

Systemisation: Turn repeating decisions into scalable mechanisms. Reduce