Engineering Manager - Remote Leadership Role

About the Role

We are seeking an Engineering Manager to join our team at Moniepoint, a leading financial services platform for emerging markets. This remote Engineering Manager role offers the opportunity to lead a talented team and drive the successful delivery of innovative projects. You will play a crucial role in managing technical planning and ensuring that product requirements are effectively translated into actionable tasks.

What You'll Do

• Own end-to-end delivery and execution across cross-functional teams, ensuring predictable and high-quality outcomes.
• Evaluate business and product requirements for technical feasibility and architectural alignment, translating them into well-defined EPICs and technical user stories.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, UX Designers, and Engineers to continuously refine, groom, and prioritize the backlog.
• Plan and drive sprint execution with clearly defined goals, using project planning tools to establish timelines and delivery milestones.
• Champion engineering processes that enable strong collaboration, accountability, and team efficiency.
• Monitor team velocity and capacity to optimize resource allocation, proactively balancing bandwidth against delivery commitments.
• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and stakeholder alignment to remove bottlenecks and maintain smooth execution.
• Stay hands-on in critical initiatives by guiding design decisions, enforcing sound design patterns, and participating in code reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 8-10 years of experience as a Software Developer, Software Engineer, or in a similar hands-on technical role.
• 5+ years of strong experience building production systems using Java and Spring Boot.
• Minimum 3 years of proven engineering leadership experience managing high-performing teams.
• Solid grasp of Agile methodologies, including sprint planning and iterative delivery.
• Strong backend engineering expertise; exposure to frontend technologies is a plus.
• Experience with project planning and tracking tools to visualize and manage delivery timelines.
• Hands-on capability to debug complex production issues and lead incident response.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with engineering, product health metrics, and monitoring tools to drive data-informed decisions.
• Good understanding of modern deployment practices, including CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders, both technical and non-technical.

What We Offer

• A culture that prioritizes the well-being of every team member.
• A learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing.
• Attractive salary, pension, health insurance, paid leave, and other benefits.