Head of Engineering, Rewards

Remote, South Africa

About the Position

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. 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.

We are looking for our Head of Engineering, Rewards to join us in South Africa. This role is fully remote and offers the opportunity to shape a strategically important platform that sits at the center of our retention strategy across a user base of approximately 23 million people.

About The Role

The Rewards platform is one of the most strategically important platforms at Moniepoint. It is being built into a dedicated charter with its own engineering and product leadership. The platform currently focuses on cashback but has the potential to evolve into a full rewards, retention, engagement, and personalization platform. The Head of Engineering will own this platform end to end and will be responsible for improving the existing cashback product, evolving it into a broader platform, and building the engineering organization from its current base.

Responsibilities

• Owning the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Rewards Platform.
• Improving the performance, reliability, and depth of the existing cashback product.
• Evolving cashback into a broader rewards platform serving business customers, consumer customers, and sales agents.
• Building the engineering organization by structuring product units, hiring engineers and Engineering Managers, and leading the team as it scales.
• Establishing a strong experimentation culture through A/B testing, cohort analysis, and measurement.
• Collaborating with Growth, Sales, and Marketing to translate business objectives into product and engineering initiatives.
• Owning the customer-facing experience of rewards across mobile and web.
• Defining architecture standards, engineering processes, and quality metrics.
• Building the platform to serve customers across multiple geographies as Moniepoint expands.
• Partnering with Product to define rewards-specific metrics and OKRs.

Requirements

• Direct-to-consumer product engineering at scale.
• Genuine front-end and mobile depth.
• Experimentation and growth engineering.
• At least 5 years of experience managing managers.
• Hands-on technical leadership.
• 10+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• Comfort with our backend environment - Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience building and scaling an engineering organization.
• Strong collaboration with commercial stakeholders.

Nice to Have

• Rewards, loyalty, gamification, personalization, or growth platform experience.
• Fintech or payments experience.

We Offer

• A rare blank page to define the future of the platform.
• Direct influence on retention across a base of roughly 23 million users.
• Full autonomy as the CTO of your domain.
• Be part of a mission-driven company expanding access to financial services for millions of businesses and individuals.

About the Company

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

Hiring Process

• 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 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).

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