Head of Engineering, Rewards

Remote, Spain

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 Spain. This role is pivotal in evolving our cashback product into a full rewards, retention, engagement, and personalization platform.

Responsibilities

• Owning the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Rewards Platform end to end.
• 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: A/B testing, cohort analysis, and measurement.
• Collaborating with Growth, Sales, and Marketing to translate objectives into product and engineering initiatives.
• 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 experience.
• At least 5 years of experience managing managers.
• Hands-on technical leadership.
• 10+ years of overall software engineering experience, with at least 5 years leading engineering teams through growth phases.
• Comfort with our backend environment - Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience building and scaling an engineering organization from a small base.
• Strong collaboration with commercial stakeholders.

Nice to Have

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

Cultural Alignment

We assess every candidate across eight dimensions that define how great leaders operate at Moniepoint:

• Customer Obsession
• Craft
• Systemisation
• Urgency
• Ownership
• No Ego
• Candour
• Integrity

What Success Looks Like In The Role

• The existing cashback product performing measurably better.
• A credible rewards platform roadmap defined with Product, and the first initiatives beyond cashback shipped.
• A functioning experimentation practice, where the team ships, measures, and learns on a short cycle.
• An engineering organization built out from its current base, with a strong bench of Engineering Managers and senior engineers.
• Rewards established as a measurable contributor to retention and engagement across the customer base.
• Clear architecture standards and engineering processes in place across the product units.

Why Join Us

• A rare blank page. The platform exists, but almost everything it could become is still ahead of it, and you will define what that is.
• Direct influence on retention across a base of roughly 23 million users.
• Full autonomy as the CTO of your domain, with the backing to build the organization you think the problem needs.
• Be part of a mission-driven company expanding access to financial services for millions of businesses and individuals.

What To Expect In The 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 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 creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates.

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