About the Position

Head of Engineering, Field Verification

Remote, Nigeria

About the Role

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.

Field Verification is how Moniepoint knows that the people and businesses on our platform are real. The platform coordinates physical, in-person checks - verifying individuals, business owners, business addresses, and loan guarantors - and it serves nearly every part of the company: onboarding, loans, compliance, and the fraud team.

Responsibilities

As Head of Engineering, Field Verification, your responsibilities will include:

Owning the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Field Verification platform end to end, and setting direction for a domain that has been running without dedicated engineering leadership.
Moving the platform from keep-the-lights-on operation to deliberate, prioritized development.
Leading and growing the existing cross-functional team, and building the organization out as scope expands.
Building the operational efficiency layer - trip and route optimization, task allocation, and capacity management for field officers.
Owning the platform's client-facing surface: the APIs and webhooks that other business units integrate with, and the back office those units rely on.
Delivering a native mobile experience for field officers.
Ensuring verification data is structured, auditable, and fit for compliance scrutiny.
Building for multi-country expansion as Moniepoint enters new markets.
Partnering closely with Product and with the business units that depend on the platform - onboarding, loans, compliance, and fraud.
Defining architecture standards, engineering processes, and quality metrics, and hiring and developing engineers and Engineering Managers.

Requirements

You have built things yourself, and grew into leadership from there.
You are capable across disciplines. Backend, web, and mobile. This platform spans all three and you will need credibility in each - a specialist in one layer will struggle here.
You have built platforms, not just products. Systems used by several distinct groups of users and internal business units, with the flexibility to serve requirements you did not anticipate.
You are a problem solver first. We would rather have someone adaptable than someone with the exact domain experience. Having built across different industries - fintech, e-commerce, logistics, or otherwise - is a positive signal, not a scattered CV.
You have 10+ years of overall software engineering experience, with substantial hands-on production engineering and strong backend depth. Our backend environment is Java and Spring Boot.
You have at least 5 years of engineering leadership, including managing Engineering Managers.
You collaborate well with product and business stakeholders, and can translate operational requirements into engineering solutions.

Nice to Have

Experience working with location and geospatial data, including map integrations.
Experience with route, trip, or delivery optimization.
Experience building for compliance - where data must be structured to evidence what was done and when.
Experience with identity, KYC, or verification platforms.

We Offer

A genuinely greenfield mandate on a system that already matters. Every customer Moniepoint onboards passes through this platform.
A lean, capable team making outsized impact, and the remit to build the organization around them.
Breadth: backend, web, mobile, location data, compliance, and operational optimization in one domain.
Be part of a mission-driven company expanding access to financial services for millions of businesses and individuals.

About the Company

As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually.

Hiring Process

A preliminary phone call with the recruiter.
60-minute High-level System Design round with one of our Engineering Managers.
60-minute Panel Interview with 2 of our Head of Engineering leaders. 30 minutes focused on a technical deep dive into your CV and into a project or system you built in the past. 30 minutes focused on testing for leadership attributes.
60-minute Stakeholder Management Round with one of our Product Heads/VPs, focused on your stakeholder management and collaboration skills with product and business.
60-minute Technical round and Culture fit interview with our Co-founder & Group CTO (the hiring manager).

Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building an inclusive organization.

Head of Engineering, Field Verification

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