Job Vacancies at Moni

This role is open to Engineers resident in West or East Africa

What you’ll do

• Work with our tech team to improve existing features and work on new features on the Moni app.
• Collaborate with mobile engineers and product manager
• Build, test and maintain APIs (NodeJs) to be consumed by mobile engineers
• Integrate and consume third party APIs to solve business needs

Requirements:

• 5+ years experience as a backend engineer
• A Bachelor's Degree in any major.
• Experience working in a fast paced, remote environment
• Experience writing and deploying production grade applications using Backend JavaScript frameworks: NodeJs + Express.
• Experience building and maintaining APIs
• Experience with WebSockets, Redis and SQL
• Experience integrating with a Core Banking Application
• Experience building Digital banking services
• Understanding of git and version control
• Experience working in a Fintech is a plus
• Experience writing code across the Full-stack with frontend JavaScript frameworks is a big plus
• Experience writing and publishing technical content and documentation is a big plus.
• If you're bilingual in English and French, that's a big++
• Take ownership of the micro-service that will be assigned to them
• Experience writing unit tests
• Strong understanding of Typescript
• Strong understanding of Distributed systems and Micro-services

What it Takes to Succeed in the Role

• You're a critical thinker and possess great problem-solving skills
• You're a great team player
• You have led a team in the past
• You demonstrate good organizational and time-management skills
• You enjoy writing and talking about technology
• You are able to mentor other junior and mid-level engineers.
• You enjoy picking up and learning new technology
• You always ensure high code-quality and maintainability.
• You're passionate about doing meaningful work that has an impact on underserved Communities

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Full medical coverage (Nigeria)
• M1 MacBook Pro
• The opportunity to work at a fast-growing, fast-paced startup
• A team that's invested in your growth

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About the Technical Product Manager Role

• We are looking for a Product Manager with experience building large-scale platforms. The ideal candidate would be someone who enjoys taking apart a problem and experimenting with the best solution for users.
• You should be someone who pays attention to detail and enjoys learning about new systems, processes and technologies.
• You should be someone whose primary desire is getting products launched FAST.
• As a Product Manager at Moni, you’ll be responsible for guiding a team that builds APIs, platforms, and interfaces for our agents.
• You’ll get to work closely with our Growth and Engineering teams to conceptualize, build and maintain delightfully successful products that solve our users' pain points.
• Our team is small but highly motivated and accomplished.
• A small team means a greater opportunity for your voice to be heard and a chance for you to have a say in shaping the product.
• This is a full-time remote role based in Lagos, Nigeria

What You'll be Doing
You'll:

• Work closely with the COO, Growth and Engineering teams in implementing our product vision
• Develop requirements and prototypes based on product strategy and vision
• Engage closely with our customers to understand their pain points with using our products and creating solutions around them.
• Define, monitor and analyze metrics to guide product improvements
• Create and own the roadmap; prioritise initiatives according to aggregate needs, with defensible reasoning that aligns stakeholders and energizes the design and engineering teams.
• Monitor and communicate updates on product priorities to internal and external stakeholders.
• Work with our external partners to deliver solutions that will solve problems for our users.
• Drive progress across product initiatives by removing blockers from the team and going the extra mile to ensure that the product objectives are met.
• Make several decisions daily on the best path to success for our product objectives.

What it Takes to Succeed in the Role
You:

• Are a clear and empathetic communicator both verbally and in your writing.
• Are motivated by the opportunity to improve the lives of our users
• Have a deep and unrelenting customer focus.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Can turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid, manageable tasks and action plans.
• Are a creative product thinker who loves collaborating across the company with engineering, analytics, marketing, design and sales.
• Obsess about continuous product improvement and can optimize for shipping a portfolio of small, medium and large releases beyond just shipping new products
• Take an evidence-based and data-driven approach to making decisions.

Required Skills

• 3+ years of experience in Product development.
• Demonstrate the ability to create, update and maintain product documentation.
• Ability to assess ascertain technical risks.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills.

While this isn't a requirement, it'll be a plus if you have:

• Experience working at a Fintech or Fintech Startup focused on Mobile Money Services.
• Prior experience with leading a Product team.
• 2+ years of experience as a Software Engineer building production grade applications.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Full medical coverage
• Laptop
• The opportunity to work at a fast-growing startup that has a direct impact on Mobile Money Agents
• A team that's invested in your growth