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Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually.\nJob Summary\n We are seeking a Team Lead, SRE to guide a squad of site reliability engineers responsible for the reliability of our highly distributed financial platform. You will be designing high-level reliability architecture, while also mentoring engineers, defining the technical roadmap, and driving the culture of Site Reliability Engineering within a team. You will balance strategic leadership with deep technical work to ensure our systems and our people can scale linearly with our hyper-growth.\nResponsibilities\nSet the technical direction for the SRE team. Architect self-healing systems, define reliability standards (Production Readiness Reviews), and drive the adoption of observability as Code and automation best practices.\nDefine and enforce the end-to-end standard for system visibility. You will guide teams to deeply instrument their code (logging, tracing, metrics) and govern the monitoring ecosystem to ensure alerts are actionable, strictly minimizing noise (alert fatigue) while maximizing our ability to detect and resolve issues proactively.\nLead, mentor, and grow a team of Senior and Associate SREs. Conduct code reviews, facilitate technical workshops and foster a culture of engineering excellence.\nAct as the ultimate escalation point for major incidents. Beyond firefighting, you will refine the Incident management process, ensuring the process is efficient and that RCAs lead to actionable engineering fixes.\n Partner with Engineering Managers and Product Leads to define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) that align with business goals. \nRequirements\nMinimum of 6 years of experience in SRE or Backend Engineering, with at least 2 years in a Lead or Senior/Staff role mentoring others.\nExpert-level proficiency in Java, Go, Rust, or Python. 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