The Moniepoint Women in Tech internship (Moniepoint WIT) is a 6 months long internship that engages women around Nigeria with tech related fields. This internship program hosted by Moniepoint Inc selects 15 women every year with the aim to ensure that young women have access to building a career in technology. Women continue to account for just 25% of Nigeria’s tech workforce, even as they represent nearly half the population and 22% of annual STEM graduates. Moniepoint’s WIT program has spent five years working to close the gap and facilitate access for women.
Moniepoint
Moniepoint is an all-in-one financial services platform for every African, everywhere. In simple terms, if you need to pay for anything in Nigeria, odds are you’re going to pay at a Moniepoint terminal, to a Moniepoint business account, from a Moniepoint personal account. Moniepoint Inc. helps over 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, and business management tools.
Program benefits
Successful applicants will receive the following:
- Competitive salary
- Wwork tools
- Branded merchandise
- Direct mentorship from experienced practitioners across the business
As with previous cohorts, participants who demonstrate strong performance will be considered for full-time employment!
Available disciplines
Each intern will get to choose from one of the following highly sought-after disciplines:
- Cloud Engineering
- Frontend and Backend Engineering
- Data Engineering
- Systems Administration
- Product Management
- Information Security
- Mobile Engineering
- Site Reliability Engineering
These roles represent the technical foundations on which the future of digital finance in Africa is being built, and Moniepoint wants women at the centre of that work.
Roles interns will play
Some of the roles interns will play include but are not limited to the following:
Cybersecurity engineer:
- Monitor alerts and events using SIEM, EDR, and other monitoring tools.
- Support initial triage activities and document security alerts under supervision.
- Gather information during incident investigations and contribute to post-incident reviews.
Backend engineer:
- Translates product requirements into architectural documents and diagrams.
- Apply engineering principles to solve complex problems through sound and creative engineering.
- Learn new engineering methods and incorporate them into your work processes.
Data engineer:
- Work with stakeholders throughout the organization to identify opportunities for leveraging company data to drive business solutions.
- Mine and analyze data from company databases to drive optimization and improvement of product development, marketing techniques and business strategies.
- Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data gathering techniques.
Product manager:
- Work with the engineering team to create and modify products to fulfil customer needs.
- Gain a deep understanding of customer experience, identify and fill product gaps and generate new ideas
- Work with internal teams, including developers, engineers, architects, quality assurance, and operations
Mobile engineer:
- Assist in developing and improving mobile apps (iOS & Android).
- Fix bugs, optimise performance, and maintain the mobile codebase.
- Learn and apply industry best practices in mobile development.
Frontend engineer:
- Develop high-quality software design and architecture.
- Identify, prioritize and execute tasks in the software development life cycle.
- Develop tools and applications by producing clean, efficient code.
Cloud engineer:
- Assist in the setup, configuration, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure using GCP.
- Support the management of Kubernetes clusters, including deployment, scaling, and monitoring.
- Contribute to the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines for automated application deployment.
Quality assurance engineer:
- Work with other developers, enterprise architects, product and project managers in designing software solutions.
- Perform the different types of tests required to certify the quality of an application before deployment.
Site reliability engineer:
- Participate in on-call rotations to detect and triage service and reliability issues across all environments.
- Create and maintain meaningful dashboards and alerts. Work with development teams to instrument their code to ensure visibility.
- Develop automation to eliminate manual and repetitive operational tasks (toil) related to reliability across both applications and infrastructure.
Application deadline
The 2026 deadline has just closed!
Apply next year at the Moniepoint Women in Tech internship website.
