Moniepoint is a global financial technology company providing banking and payment solutions across emerging markets. Originally built to support small and medium-sized enterprises, it has grown into one of Africa’s most influential digital finance platforms.
In Nigeria, Moniepoint is a key driver of financial inclusion, powering payments, agency banking, credit services, and business tools for millions of users. Its extensive agent network spans urban and rural areas, enabling reliable access to financial services nationwide.
Beyond Nigeria, the company operates in multiple international markets with a growing workforce across Africa and Europe, reflecting its mission to build secure, scalable financial systems in underserved economies.
Here are some Current Job Opportunities at Moniepoint
Business Relationship Manager (Lagos)
Roles:
- Engage in business development activities and solicitation of new business; Customer acquisition through sale of the bank’s products and services.
- Cross-selling of bank products and services.
- Actively seeking out new sales opportunities through cold calling, networking and social media
- Create marketing strategies to achieve sales targets.
- Conducts daily meetings with the sales team and carry out reviews on the previous day and jointly plan for the week ahead
- Manages and maintains current business relationships
- Conducting market research to identify selling possibilities and evaluate customer needs
- Participate in market storms, community fairs and cluster marketing events e.g. Trade Fairs
Qualifications:
- Minimum 1-2 years of in-depth sales experience, preferably in the banking, fintech or similar industries.
- Strong understanding of the local financial services industry
- Experience in marketing/sales within the banking sector with emphasis on onboarding and managing merchants.
- Experience selling lending services and merchant POS devices to corporates should be an added advantage (Good network of enterprise merchants)
- Strong business acumen and analytical thought process.
- Ability to execute goals independently with little or no supervision.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Tertiary education from a recognised institution.
Database Administrator
Roles:
- Create, monitor and maintain the company’s databases
- Diagnose and resolve problems quickly
- Proactively and regularly make recommendations for system improvements
- Implement and manage company data management policies
- Managing database access and permissions.
- Ensuring that databases meet users’ requirements.
- Liaise with programmers, applications/operational staff, IT project managers and other technical staff.
- Reviewing and managing database security, integrity and backup procedures and performance tuning.
- Devising and implementing processes for resolving faults and data loss.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related information technology field
- 3-5 years of experience as a Database Administrator or similar role
- Extensive knowledge of database technology, networks and server operating systems and hardware.
- Extensive experience in administering, managing and tuning databases
- Good understanding of data and schema standards and concepts
- Good understanding of database design, implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance
- Expertise in SQL and hands-on experience with MySQL, Cloud Spanner, BigTable and Clickhouse or other DBMS
Data Science Manager (Marketing)
Roles:
- Strategic Leadership: Be a key leader in building a discipline of exceptional data scientists and analysts. Develop and execute a comprehensive data strategy – design what world class looks like
- Team Building & Management: Hire, develop, and retain a high performing team of data professionals
- Experimentation: Champion and drive a culture of rigorous experimentation, including A/B testing, to inform product development and business decisions.
- Data Pipeline Ownership: Oversee the end-to-end ownership, design, development, and maintenance of scalable and reliable data pipelines.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Liaise with marketing, product, and engineering managers to ensure we collect the right data for meaningful business insights. Bring data leadership and rigour to our approach to product development. Build a strategic understanding of the business and structure complex projects to bring them to life.
Qualifications:
- You have proven experience (typically 8+ years overall and +2 years in management / in data leadership roles), with a strong focus on strategy, execution, and team management. You love coaching and make everyone better around
- you.
- You’ve expertise in experimentation methodologies and A/B testing frameworks (multivariate, geo-holdouts, etc, variance reduction techniques)
- You can create data pipelines (including designing/architecting them – ETL/ELT) – especially using cloud platforms (we use Clickhouse and Bigquery here)
- You’re confident with data Science tools languages (Python and SQL). You know when to pick the right tool,
- and can help others do the same
Head of Engineering
Roles:
- Technical Strategy & Architecture: Own and drive the technical roadmap and architecture, ensuring the design and operation of highly available, scalable systems (99.999%+ uptime) that support millions of daily transactions.
- Organizational Scaling: Design, build, and lead efficient engineering teams that can scale with the business. Establish and implement engineering processes that maximise execution speed, quality, and leverage.
- Talent & Leadership Development: Attract, retain, and develop senior engineering talent. Drive clear succession planning and actively mentor managers to grow into independent, high-impact leaders.
- Complex Problem Solving: Tackle the most difficult technical and organisational challenges, breaking them down into core components and driving effective, practical, and timely resolution.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience in a Head, Director, CTO, or VP Engineering role at a high-growth company operating at significant scale.
- Proven ability to operate as a Business Unit CTO, balancing technical debt, innovation, and rapid delivery.
- Deep expertise in Systems Architecture, Scalability, and Reliability (distributed systems, high-throughput APIs, high-availability design).
- Demonstrated experience in Engineering Process & Team Design, including successfully leading teams through periods of high growth and process maturation.
- A strong track record of Impact Through Leverage—improving throughput and quality through technical/process innovation, rather than solely increasing headcount.
Senior Backend Engineer (Java) – Payments
Roles:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend services and distributed systems that power high-throughput payment flows.
- Provide architectural input and strong engineering instinct around scalability, data consistency, reliability, and system performance.
- Identify system bottlenecks and implement robust engineering solutions that scale securely and reliably.
- Own complex features or systems end-to-end from planning and design to implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.
- Collaborate with product, design, data, compliance, and operations teams to ship impactful, user-focused features.
- Communicate technical challenges, trade-offs, and proposed solutions clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of professional software development experience, including building and maintaining large-scale, distributed backend systems.
- Deep technical fundamentals in backend architecture, distributed systems, data models, consistency, performance, and system reliability.
- Hands-on experience with mission-critical transaction systems, financial flows, or real-time data pipelines.
- Ability to analyse complex technical trade-offs and contribute to clear, well-reasoned engineering decisions.
- A track record of shipping significant backend features or platforms in collaboration with product, design, and business teams.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical concepts with clarity.
Staff Product Designer
Roles:
- Lead design strategy for major product areas or cross-product initiatives
- Drive complex, ambiguous projects from discovery through launch across multiple teams
- Set design standards, patterns, and best practices that others follow
- Identify and solve systemic design problems across products
- Partner with senior product and engineering leadership on strategy
- Mentor and sponsor senior and mid-level designers (informally, no direct reports)
- Make critical design decisions that affect multiple teams
- Contribute significantly to design system strategy and evolution
Qualifications:
- Mastery of design tools and advanced prototyping
- Ideally, 10+ years of product design experience with demonstrated strategic impact
- Strategic product thinking and strong business acumen
- Ability to influence without authority
- Comfortable operating with extreme ambiguity and creating clarity for others
- Strong facilitation skills for workshops and alignment sessions
- Can work autonomously for extended periods without guidance
- Makes high-stakes decisions
Pro Tip for Applicants
Moniepoint places strong emphasis on problem-solving ability, ownership, and impact. When applying, focus less on generic job descriptions and more on how your experience aligns with real-world challenges in fintech, scalability, and emerging markets. Tailor your CV to highlight measurable results, system improvements, or growth outcomes you have contributed to in previous roles. For technical roles, practical experience often carries more weight than credentials alone.
Moniepoint continues to position itself as one of the most influential fintech employers in Nigeria and beyond. Its growth trajectory, global outlook, and focus on innovation make it an attractive workplace for professionals looking to build meaningful careers in financial technology.
If you are seeking opportunities in a fast-growing company with real economic impact, exploring current Moniepoint vacancies is a strong place to start. Review available roles carefully, prepare a targeted application, and take the next step toward joining one of Africa’s most important fintech success stories.
