Head of Engineering, Rewards

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month. It is Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, processing over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually through its subsidiaries. Poland is a new strategic location for Moniepoint's engineering, aimed at senior hires and long-term growth.

• Experience building and shipping direct-to-consumer products at scale with a focus on engagement and retention.
• Strong front-end and mobile engineering expertise.
• Hands-on experience with experimentation, A/B testing, feature flagging, and measurement.
• At least 5 years managing engineering managers and leading engineering organizations.
• 10+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• Technical leadership credibility including hands-on coding.
• Familiarity with Java and Spring Boot backend environment.
• Experience building and scaling engineering organizations from a small base.
• Strong collaboration skills with commercial stakeholders like growth, marketing, and sales.
• Experience with rewards, loyalty, gamification, personalization, or growth platforms is advantageous but not required.
• Fintech or payments experience is advantageous but not required.

• Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Rewards Platform end to end.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and depth of the existing cashback product.
• Evolve cashback into a broader rewards, retention, engagement, and personalization platform serving business, consumer customers, and sales agents.
• Build and scale the engineering organization, including structuring product units and hiring engineers and Engineering Managers.
• Establish a strong experimentation culture: A/B testing, cohort analysis, and measurement.
• Collaborate with Growth, Sales, and Marketing to translate business objectives into engineering initiatives.
• Own the customer-facing experience of rewards across mobile and web platforms.
• Define architecture standards, engineering processes, and quality metrics.
• Build the platform to serve customers across multiple geographies.
• Partner with Product to define rewards-specific metrics and OKRs and hold the team accountable.

Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.