Technical Product Manager at Moniepoint Incorporated

Moniepoint Incorporated is a global business payments and banking platform and recently became QED Investors’ first investment in Africa. We are the partner of choice for over 600,000 businesses of all sizes, powering the dreams of SMBs and providing them with equal access to the tools they need to grow and scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Technical Product Manager

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities
What you’ll get to do:

• Doing anything and everything it takes, to ensure your team is executing at a rapid pace, shipping fast, and with high quality.
• Scaling our back end services to handle millions of customers, and all aspects which come up when operating at this scale. Be it, figuring out how to authenticate users, keep the data secure, or to ensure the back-end services return success/failure responses in <.5 sec, for millions of customers.
• Deciding what structure of database do we want, and why, and more broadly guiding your engineers.Being a leader, and being able to handle the huge responsibility of ensuring the approach your team takes to build the next part of the product is the best one.
• Navigating through dependencies in a rapid pace environment 
• Acting as an engineering manager. At least 60% of this role focuses on rolling up your sleeves and supporting your team.
• 40% of the role is about stakeholder management - you will work collaboratively with the senior leadership, and every department in the company, to ensure everything is taken care of for your product to go live.
• Holding technical deep dives, and architecting the next part we'll build (others call these grooming meetings).
• At the end of the day, you are driving development of the product, anticipating issues before they happen, and making sure velocity and quality are top of mind, because the team needs to get new
  products out at a VERY FAST PACE, with quality always on top of mind.
• Work with data pipelines, algorithms, and automated systems.

Requirements
To succeed in this role, we think you should have:

• Substantial, real experience in back-end engineering, and in managing back end services, at scale, as a back-end engineer, architect, or in a similar role.
• You have prior experience working with a high-growth tech company.
• You have exposure to building and shipping products at scale.
• You have substantial experience in the fintech domain, be it payments, credit/lending, banking/savings, etc.
• Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle, from ideation, through development, to launch, growth and maintenance
• Proven ability to assess and address technical risks
• Proven ability to facilitate the creation and maintenance of proper product documentation.
• Solid technical background with years of hands-on experience in software development.
• Strong problem-solving skills and the desire to roll up your sleeves to get the job done, and to be hands on, should be in your DNA.
• Skilled at working effectively with cross-functional teams in a matrix organization.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

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, Employee Stock Options, annual bonus, plus other benefits.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.