About the Position

Head of Engineering, Sales Management Tools

Remote, South Africa

About the Company

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.

About the Role

Sales Management Tools owns MonieCRM, the operating system for Moniepoint's 50,000-strong sales network. This is a workforce operations platform built entirely in-house for a multi-level field sales hierarchy, managing portfolios, teams, goals, performance, resources, and an emerging AI-assisted support layer. The platform also handles partner management, a rewards and retention platform, and our marketing technology stack, including Braze for customer engagement.

A significant part of the domain moves money, owning wallets, commission calculation, cashout, and welfare funds for a network that drives the majority of company revenue. Financial correctness is a core engineering requirement.

Responsibilities

Lead a team in modernizing and scaling our platform for a multi-level sales network.
Re-architect systems that have grown quickly and make them dependable at a scale of more than 20 million users.
Ensure commissions and earnings are calculated, attributed, and paid accurately and on time, at network scale.
Develop a high-performing engineering team with a strong bench of managers and senior engineers.

Requirements

10–15 years of overall software engineering experience, with at least 5 years leading engineering teams through growth phases.
5+ years of hands-on, production-level experience writing and shipping Java code.
At least 5 years of experience managing managers.
Proven platform engineering experience at scale.
Experience with legacy migrations and re-architecture projects at 20M+ user scale.
Strong backend engineering skills in high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems, proficient in Java and Spring Boot.
Managed and developed large engineering teams of 20 or more members.
Experience building systems where financial correctness matters is a strong advantage.
Fintech or payments background is strongly preferred.

Nice to Have

CRM or SalesTech domain experience.
Exposure to customer engagement or marketing automation platforms such as Braze.

Cultural Alignment

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

Customer Obsession: Build deep empathy for users. Solve problems intuitively, and fix root causes, not just tickets.
Craft: Master the fundamentals. Reason from first principles, make trade-offs explicit, and raise the bar on quality.
Systemisation: Turn repeating decisions into scalable mechanisms. Reduce cognitive load and raise engineering quality.
Urgency: Move with disciplined speed. Act autonomously within scope, remove friction, and escalate risks early.
Ownership: Treat the platform as your own. Take initiative across boundaries and follow through without reminders.
No Ego: Put the mission first. Share credit, welcome debate, and never protect status over team outcomes.
Candour: Surface uncomfortable truths and risks early. Intelligent failure is welcome; concealment is not.
Integrity: Stay truthful and ethically consistent. Refuse toxic behavior. Performance without integrity is unacceptable.

What Success Looks Like In The Role

Legacy systems modernised and re-architected, with measurable improvement in reliability and performance.
Commissions and earnings calculated, attributed, and paid accurately and on time, at network scale.
A sales and marketing platform that scales with a rapidly growing agent network across multiple markets.
Commercial teams able to move faster because the tooling beneath them is dependable.
A high-performing engineering team with a strong bench of managers and senior engineers.

Why Join Us

Own the platform behind the commercial engine of one of Africa's largest digital banks - the system 50,000 people rely on to do their jobs and to get paid.
A genuine platform modernisation mandate with the autonomy and backing to see it through.
Be part of a mission-driven company impacting millions of businesses and individuals across Africa and beyond.

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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Head of Engineering, Sales Management Tools

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