Who we are

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial ecosystem, helping 10 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, and business management tools since 2019.

As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, it powers most of the country’s Point of Sale (POS) transactions. Through its subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes $22 billion monthly for its customers while operating profitably.

About the role : 

At Moniepoint, data is at the core of everything we do. We are a customer-centric company, and your work will enable our teams to make informed, data-driven decisions that directly impact the success of our business. As a Data Engineering Lead, you will help craft robust, scalable systems that support our business intelligence and data-driven operations. We value leaders who are not only technically adept but also excited about mentoring others and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with data.

Curious about what makes Moniepoint an incredible place to work? Check out posts on how we cultivate a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth.

What you will get to do

• Build and maintain robust data pipelines processing large volumes of data
• Analysis of large data sets using tools such as Python & SQL
• Update and optimize our data platform for speed, scalability and cost
• Coordinate with different functional teams to understand and meet their data needs
• Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy
• Solve general data-related problems
• Setting up new pipelines for the full stream/enrichment/curation process
• Upkeep of source code locations
• Investigating and utilising ML & AI to improve the cloud offering
• Development of junior staff members 

To succeed in this role, you should have

• Proven experience as a Data Engineer (5+ years, can be made up for with accomplishments)
• Strong problem solving skills
• Advanced proficiency with SQL
• Proficiency with Python
• Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. Google Cloud, AWS, Azure)
• Experience using version control tools such as git
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A drive to learn and master new technologies and techniques
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or any other related field

Experience with the following would be a plus

• Data governance
• Building and deploying machine learning models
• Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools

What we can offer you

• Culture - We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We have 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, annual bonus, plus other benefits.

What to expect in the hiring process

• A preliminary phone call with the recruiter
• A take-home assessment 
• A technical interview with a Lead in our Engineering Team
• A behavioural and technical interview with a member of the Executive team. 

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

Who we are

Moniepoint is an all-in-one financial services platform for emerging markets and the second-fastest growing company in Africa.
Since 2019, Moniepoint’s technology has powered over 3 million people, offering personal and business banking, payment, credit, and business management tools to help them succeed. Moniepoint processed $182 billion in 2023 and currently processes most of the POS transactions in Nigeria.

About the role

This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for owning and driving the strategy, execution, and culture of Quality Assurance across our Engineering teams. You will lead a team of smart, detail-oriented QA Analysts and Engineers, ensuring the products we build meet the highest standards of quality and reliability. You’ll be working directly with developers, product managers, and engineering leadership to make sure everything we ship to our users is production-ready and delivers happiness.

Curious about what makes Moniepoint an incredible place to work? Check out posts on how we cultivate a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth.

What you’ll get to do

• Lead the QA function across multiple engineering teams – drive quality standards, strategies, and frameworks that scale.
• Mentor and manage QA Analysts and Engineers – help them grow into the best versions of themselves through coaching, feedback, and career development.
• Design and enforce test strategies, including manual and automated testing, regression, performance, and exploratory testing.
• Build out meaningful dashboards and metrics to measure QA performance: test cases written and executed, bug leakage, regression rates, and more.
• Collaborate closely with engineers to serve as a gatekeeper of quality, reviewing product requirements, technical documentation, and code when necessary.
• Drive continuous improvement in QA processes, tools, and team dynamics.
• Ensure deep product understanding within the QA team so test cases are not only thorough but also relevant and user-centric.
• Promote a strong quality culture by working hand-in-hand with engineering, product, and business stakeholders
• Turn data into insight by effectively transforming test metrics into dashboards and reports that guide team performance and product health.

To succeed in this role, you should have

• Experience leading and scaling a QA team in a fast-paced, tech-driven environment.
• A background (previous experience) as a QA Analyst or Engineer, you understand the job from the inside out.
• Experience designing and evaluating test strategies and measuring test effectiveness.
• Strong technical depth, you understand how software works and are familiar with the fundamentals (APIs, microservices, infrastructure).
• Solid analytical skills, you can connect the dots, interpret patterns in data, and ask the right questions to drive clarity and solutions.
• A mentorship-first mindset, you’ve built and led strong, collaborative teams and care deeply about your team’s growth.
• Hands-on experience with creating QA frameworks, building test dashboards, and defining success metrics.
• High integrity and emotional intelligence, you’re candid, constructive, and deeply aligned with team and company culture.
• Strong performance management experience, you can assess, evaluate, and coach team members using clear KPIs and deliverables.
• Proactivity, you don’t wait to be told what to do; you’re constantly thinking about what’s next and how we can improve.

Key requirements

• 10+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, including 4–5 years leading engineering teams, with a strong track record of building, mentoring, and scaling high-performing teams.
• Strong programming skills in Java with a focus on tooling and automation
• Strong experience in testing APIs, microservices, mobile native, and web applications.
• Proficiency in working with Linux/Unix environments and cloud infrastructure (GCP, Docker).
• Strong knowledge of SQL, NoSQL databases, and pub-sub technologies.
• Experience in non-functional testing, including performance, security, and monitoring/alerting.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins / GitHub Actions / Harness).
• Familiarity with AI/ML-based test generation or test impact analysis.
• Strong experience in Agile/Scrum methodologies and leading small-to-medium teams.
• Strong technical experience, including hands-on coding and a solid understanding of software development.
• Proven ability to foster collaboration, trust, and transparency across diverse teams.
• Experience owning and overseeing system architecture for large-scale, secure, and scalable platforms.
• Ability to mentor, recruit, and grow engineering talent in an environment that prioritizes continuous learning.

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

• Stage 1: A preliminary phone call with one of our recruiters.
• Stage 2: Technical and product interview
• Stage 3: Leadership and execution interview
• Stage 4: Culture interview

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

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Technical Financial Crime Manager

About Paystack

Over the past nine years, Paystack has established itself as a pioneer in African fintech with a mission to help merchants get paid by anyone, anywhere in the world. Processing over $300 million in monthly transactions, our modern payments infrastructure supports tens of thousands of notable corporations, including MTN, Bolt, and Domino’s Pizza.

As we enter a phase of accelerated growth, we are seeking a Technical Financial Crime Manager to own, design, and scale our fraud and AML detection capabilities. This role sits at the intersection of data, engineering, and financial crime operations, with end-to-end accountability for ensuring our monitoring systems are technically robust, domain-accurate, and scalable across multiple markets.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will define detection logic, guide system design, and directly influence how financial crime risk is identified and managed at Paystack, while also leading and developing high-performing fraud and AML teams.

What You’ll Do

As the Technical Financial Crime Manager, you will run the day-to-day fraud and AML detection stack; from data and rules to operational outcomes. You will combine deep technical expertise with financial crime domain knowledge to design effective monitoring systems, manage domain specialists, and ensure Paystack remains a safe, trusted payments platform.

You will be accountable for:

• The technical quality and effectiveness of fraud & AML monitoring logic
• The operating model and performance of Financial Crime Monitoring teams

Translating risk, regulatory, and business requirements into scalable detection systems

Key Responsibilities

Technical Ownership of Detection & Monitoring

• Define, build, test, and optimise fraud and AML detection rules, scenarios, thresholds, and models used in production systems.
• Translate complex datasets and domain insights into actionable detection logic embedded in monitoring and alerting platforms.
• Establish feedback loops between investigation outcomes and detection logic to continuously improve signal quality.
• Measure and manage detection performance using quantitative metrics (precision, recall, false positives, alert-to-case conversion, loss metrics).

Maintain structured, auditable documentation of rules, logic, assumptions, and changes.

Data Analysis, Modelling & Insights

• Analyse large, complex transactional and behavioural datasets to identify emerging fraud and AML risks across markets.
• Design and implement statistical models, machine learning approaches, and/or time-series analysis to enhance detection capabilities.
• Build and own dashboards and reporting frameworks tracking KPIs, SLAs, alert quality, investigator productivity, and risk outcomes.

Conduct trend analysis, root cause analysis, and deep dives on losses, typologies, and control gaps.

Financial Crime Oversight

• Own the end-to-end fraud and AML detection domain, ensuring alignment between prevention, detection, investigation, and remediation.
• Apply deep understanding of fraud typologies, AML/CTF risks, sanctions, and regulatory expectations to detection design.
• Manage the Fraud and AML operational teams (specialists and first-line managers) to ensure adequate coverage, capability and day-to-day execution. 
• Translate regulatory, partner, and audit requirements into scalable technical and operational controls.
• Stay ahead of evolving financial crime patterns, market-specific risks, and regulatory developments across Paystack’s footprint.

Tooling, Automation & Scale

• Partner with Product and Engineering to embed detection logic into core systems and improve monitoring, alerting, and case management tooling.
• Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and enable scale without compromising control quality.
• Identify and prioritise enhancements to monitoring platforms, workflows, and data pipelines.
• Ensure fraud and AML tooling evolves in line with transaction growth, new products, and new markets.

Operational Excellence

• Build and continuously improve operational processes, SLAs, KPIs, and quality frameworks across Fraud and AML teams.
• Use data and metrics to manage performance, capacity, and outcomes, ensuring teams operate efficiently and effectively.
• Identify gaps, risks, and inefficiencies, leading initiatives to strengthen controls and scale operations sustainably.
• Balance speed, quality, regulatory expectations, and customer experience in day-to-day decision-making.

Cross-Functional & Executive Collaboration

• Work closely with Product, Engineering, Data, Risk, Compliance, Legal, and Customer Operations. 
• Influence roadmap priorities related to fraud, AML, and financial crime tooling.
• Provide clear updates to senior stakeholders on operational performance, risks, and emerging issues

Support audits, partner reviews, and regulatory engagements as a subject matter expert.

Who We’re Looking For

Required 

• 7+ years in financial crime roles in payments, fintech, banking, or financial services.
• Strong technical expertise in data analysis, including advanced SQL and experience working with large, complex datasets.
• Expert Python skills, including experience with libraries such as pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, statsmodels, and/or model pipelines.
• Proven experience designing, building, and tuning risk detection systems (fraud, AML, or similar).
• Solid understanding of statistical modelling, machine learning, and/or time-series forecasting, with experience deploying models into production or operational workflows.
• Ability to translate data insights into operational detection logic used by investigators and automated systems.
• Experience measuring and optimising detection performance using quantitative metrics.

Strong systems thinking: able to design scalable, maintainable monitoring frameworks rather than one-off rules.

• Deep understanding of financial crime typologies, fraud patterns, AML/CTF requirements, and regulatory obligations.
• Experience operating within fraud, AML, risk, or compliance functions in payments, fintech, or financial services.
• Proven experience leading and developing teams, including setting direction, coaching, and performance management.
• Ability to balance technical depth with practical operational decision-making.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

High ownership mindset and comfort operating in ambiguous, high-growth environments.

Preferred

• Experience with dbt and modern analytics stacks.
• Experience with version control systems (GitHub).
• Experience with AI-assisted tooling or advanced analytics platforms.
• Familiarity with monitoring platforms, alerting systems, transaction screening, and case management tools.
• Experience working with OLTP (MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQL Server), OLAP (Redshift/BigQuery/Snowflake), and NoSQL (MongoDB) databases.
• Industry certifications such as ACAMS, ICA, CFE, CFCS, or similar.

Why This Role Matters

This role is foundational to Paystack’s ability to scale safely. You will define how financial crime detection works at Paystack, combining strong technical systems with sound domain judgment. Success in this role directly protects customers, merchants, partners, and the broader financial ecosystem while enabling Paystack’s continued growth across Africa and beyond.

This role is open to candidates based in Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, or South Africa