Moniepoint Inc.

Financial Services

SeniorSiteReliabilityEngineer

$15000–25000k ~AI est. Lagos, Nigeria
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The Brief

“Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Moniepoint Inc.. Participate in on-call rotations. Act as Incident Commander during major severity incidents”

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshooting cluster/infrastructure issues; Root cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

On-call rotations

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4 years of experience in SRE or Backend Engineering, Ability to write clean, performant, and tested code in Java, Go, Rust, or Python, Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture and design patterns, Command of microservices fundamentals, Command of event-driven architectures, Proficient in running production workloads on Kubernetes (GKE/EKS), Troubleshooting cluster/infrastructure issues

Nice to Have

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) experience, AWS experience, Azure experience, Experience designing observability strategies, Familiarity with operating and tuning production data stores, Familiarity with streaming platforms

What You'll Do.

Participate in on-call rotations

Act as Incident Commander during major severity incidents

Coordinate cross-functional teams

Provide clear status updates

Instrument code to expose metrics

Instrument code to expose distributed traces

Define Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

Measure Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

Defend Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

Write production-ready code

Build internal tooling

Build automation platforms

Build self-healing mechanisms

Eliminate manual operator intervention

Partner with Product Engineering teams during design phase

Ensure new services are built with reliability

Ensure new services are built with scalability

Ensure new services are built with observability patterns

Analyze system performance

Analyze traffic patterns

Model future capacity needs

Conduct chaos engineering experiments

Verify system resilience under failure conditions

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Coordinating cross-functional teams; Partner with Product Engineering teams

Communication Scope

Clear status updates

Full Job Description

Who We Are Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually. What We Do At Moniepoint, we are a customer-focused community, dedicated to crafting solutions that redefine our industry. We have several products that provide essential services for businesses, such as credit, overdrafts, etc. We leverage artificial intelligence and data to make our decisions, but also have the technology and data-driven best practices used to support our businesses. Curious about what makes Moniepoint an incredible place to work? Check out posts on how we cultivate a culture of innovation, teamwork, and growth. Job Summary We are seeking an experienced SRE to engineer the reliability of our highly distributed platform. You will combine deep knowledge of distributed systems with strong coding skills to define SLOs, lead incident response, and build automation and self-healing mechanisms into our systems. You will balance immediate operational stability with long-term strategic engineering to ensure our services scale linearly with our hyper-growth. Responsibilities Participate in on-call rotations as the primary technical lead. Act as the Incident Commander during major severity incidents: initiating war rooms, coordinating cross-functional teams, and providing clear status updates. Instrument code to expose high-cardinality metrics and distributed traces. Collaboratively define, measure, and defend Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Error Budgets with product owners. Write high-quality, production-ready code (in Java, Go, or Python) to build internal tooling, automation platforms, and self-healing mechanisms that eli

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