- Company: Moniepoint Incorporated
- Location: Lagos
- Job type: Full-time
About the role
Moniepoint Incorporated is a global business payments and banking platform that supports over 600,000 businesses. We are looking for an SRE Team Lead to guide a squad of site reliability engineers responsible for the reliability of our highly distributed financial platform. You will balance strategic leadership with deep technical work to ensure our systems and people can scale with our growth.
Responsibilities
- Set the technical direction for the SRE team and architect self-healing systems.
- Define reliability standards and drive the adoption of observability as Code and automation best practices.
- Guide teams to deeply instrument their code and govern the monitoring ecosystem to minimize alert noise.
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of Senior and Associate SREs while fostering a culture of engineering excellence.
- Act as the escalation point for major incidents and refine the Incident management process.
- Partner with Engineering Managers and Product Leads to define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) that align with business goals.
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in SRE or Backend Engineering, with at least 2 years in a Lead or Senior/Staff role.
- Expert-level proficiency in Java, Go, Rust, or Python.
- Mastery of distributed systems patterns and the ability to design scalable architectures.
- Deep expertise with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or AWS, including running Kubernetes (GKE) at scale.
- Proven experience defining observability strategies for large teams.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to de-escalate high-pressure situations.
How to apply
Interested and qualified candidates should click here to apply online. The hiring process includes a preliminary phone call with the recruiter, a technical interview with the Hiring Manager, and a behavioural and technical interview with a member of the Executive team.
