Engineering Manager

Paystack’s mission is to accelerate digital payments on the continent of Africa. Over 200K of some of the most renowned businesses in Nigeria, as well as a growing number of merchants in South Africa, Ghana, and Kenya use Paystack’s modern payments gateway.

In just over 10 years, our growing team has introduced a steady cadence of innovation within the online payments landscape. We’ve been acquired by Stripe and are doubling down on the mission to help build out Africa’s payments infrastructure.

• Lead and inspire talented engineers in an agile development environment to innovate, implement, and deploy complex software solutions.
• Develop and grow engineering talent through effective mentoring and coaching.
• Manage planning and execution to successfully deliver value to our customers.
• Promote knowledge sharing and collaboration between teams.
• Work on cross-team initiatives to improve the applications and system.
• Design, build and deliver new features for our systems.
• Reduce complexity of systems.
• Create awareness of engineering efforts and achievements.
• Partner with product and other stakeholders to drive success.

• 8+ years of experience building and working on cutting edge solutions that scale for millions of customers.
• 3+ years of experience building and managing high-performance engineering teams.
• Solid experience with development CI/CD, Automation, Testing, and Deploying large systems.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams of multidisciplinary engineers.
• Ensures quality, performance, monitoring, alerting, and security using best practices.
• Proven history as an experienced engineer.
• A passion for building products to help African businesses.
• High-quality working standards with a clear structured approach.
• Takes full ownership and responsibility for organizational practices and processes.
• Proven experience of empowering teams with AI-assisted software engineering.