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Software Engineering Manager At Remita

Remita·Lagos, nigeria·Full Time·Onsite
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The role

  • We're hiring a Senior Engineering Manager to lead our Java-based platform teams. You'll own delivery, reliability, and technical growth across mission-critical payment APIs and microservices. This is a hands-on leadership role combining architecture, people management, and operational excellence.

What you'll do

  • Lead and grow multiple engineering teams, including hiring, performance management, and career development.
  • Drive architecture and design for microservices, APIs, and payment integrations.
  • Ensure system reliability, scalability, security, and compliance with payment standards.
  • Champion engineering best practices: CI/CD, automated testing, code reviews, observability.
  • Own system reliability, capacity planning, and SLOs for both transactional services and ML inference workloads; optimize cost and latency trade-offs.
  • Partner with Product, Data & AI Engineering, Risk, Security, and Compliance to prioritize initiatives, embed models into workflows, and ensure regulatory readiness.
  • Establish KPIs for engineering and AI (lead time, MTTR, model drift, inference latency, false positive/negative rates); use metrics to drive continuous improvement.
  • Evaluate and introduce technologies that improve performance and developer productivity.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years software engineering experience; 5+ years in engineering management or equivalent.
  • Strong Java (Java 8+) expertise and proven experience building production microservices.
  • Experience with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and databases (Oracle, Postgres, Redis, etc.).
  • Cloud & container experience (AWS/Azure/GCP, Kubernetes/Docker).
  • Hands-on with CI/CD, IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation), and observability tools (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK).
  • Solid knowledge of secure development practices and payment industry/regulatory requirements.
  • Familiarity with specification-driven AI development, including structured workflows, schema-based outputs, guardrails, and evaluation-driven AI system design.
  • Familiarity with ML frameworks and tooling (TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn), model orchestration (Kubeflow, MLflow), and cloud AI services (SageMaker, Vertex AI, Azure ML); or demonstrated ability to evaluate and adopt equivalent solutions.
  • Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, manage complex stakeholder networks, and deliver under high operational pressure.
  • Excellent communicator and stakeholder partner; experience in fintech/payments preferred.

Key skills

BA/BSc/HND

At a glance

Company

Remita

Location

Lagos, nigeria

Employment

Full Time

Experience

Valid until

Not specified

Created

September 9, 2026

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