Technical Support Engineer at Moniepoint Incorporated

Moniepoint is a global business payments and banking platform and recently became QED Investors’ first investment in Africa. We are the partner of choice for over 600,000 businesses of all sizes, powering the dreams of SMBs and providing them with equal access to the tools they need to grow and scale.

Moniepoint Incorporated (formerly TeamApt Inc.) was founded with the vision to create a society where everyone experiences financial happiness. We are the parent company of TeamApt Limited, a Central Bank of Nigeria(CBN) licensed Switch and Processor, and Moniepoint Microfinance Bank, a CBN-licensed Microfinance Bank.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Technical Support Engineer

Location: Lagos (Remote)
Employment Type: Full-Time

About the Role

• We are looking for an Application Technical Support Engineer to provide enterprise-level assistance to our production applications and services.
• You will be responsible for the stability, integrity, and operation of our production applications by supporting, monitoring and driving optimizations while also providing root cause analysis with recommendations for improvements.
• You will research, diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve customer issues in an accurate and timely manner.

Responsibilities
What You’ll get to Do:

• Provide tier two application support to production systems and identify any issue in production.
• Taking ownership of customer issues reported and seeing problems through to resolution.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to fix bugs.
• Participate in regular rotations for weekday and weekend on-call coverage, providing emergency support to customers, or working with the SRE team to coordinate incident communications.
• Monitor performance metrics for various production systems, identify root cause for all technical issues and work with the engineering team to resolve them.
• Manage team ticket queue and resolve in a timely manner.
• Develop and maintain accurate technical, software operations and support related documentation.
• Work with software vendors to have application issues fixed, both short term and long term (root cause).
•  Act as a technical resource during other projects as required.

Requirements
To succeed in this role, we think you should have:

• B.Sc Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or relevant field
• Familiarity with Git and continuous integration, delivery, and deployment principles
• Experience interacting with APIs and troubleshooting related requests.
• Hands-on experience with Windows/Linux/Mac OS environments.
• Proven work experience as a Technical Support Engineer or similar role.
• Minimum of 3 years experience supporting software applications.
• Experience in a support or other service-oriented customer facing role.
• Experience in managing cases throughout the entire support lifecycle from initial customer inquiry to triage and reproduction, writing bug reports for hand off to the development team, and case resolution.
• Experience being on-call and can jump into a complex situation and make sense of and communicate clearly to stakeholders what’s going on.
• Basic Understanding of OOP concepts and other programming concepts.
• In depth knowledge of SQL databases particularly MYSQL.
• Familiarity with basic network concepts and tools.
• Experience troubleshooting using stack traces and log file.

What we can offer you

• Culture -We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.
• Learning – We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
• Compensation – You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance,, Employee Stock Options, annual bonus, plus other benefits.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply

What to expect in the hiring process

• A preliminary phone call with the recruiter
• A technical interview with the Hiring Manager
• A behavioural and technical interview with a member of the Executive team.