Head of Engineering, Sales Management Tools

Remote, Nairobi, Kenya

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.

Kenya is where our next chapter begins. Following our acquisition of Sumac Microfinance Bank, we're preparing to go live - which means the people we hire here help build a business from its first day, not inherit one. How we execute in Kenya will shape how we approach every market we enter after it, making this one of the most consequential engineering mandates in the business right now. This is the natural extension of our mission: to drive financial inclusion, and help millions of business owners and individuals across the African continent achieve financial happiness and success.

We are looking for our Head of Engineering, Sales Management Tools, to join us in Kenya.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Sales Management Tools team in modernizing and scaling our financial platform.
• Oversee the development and maintenance of MonieCRM, the operating system for Moniepoint's 50,000-strong sales network.
• Ensure financial correctness in systems that manage wallets, commission calculation, and cashout funds.
• Manage partner management, rewards and retention platform, and marketing technology stack.
• Architect and re-architect systems to be dependable at a scale of more than 20 million users.

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 as a practising engineer.
• At least 5 years of experience managing managers - leading an engineering organisation through other engineering leaders, rather than running a single team.
• Proven platform engineering experience at scale - building and running complex distributed systems, not feature delivery alone.
• Experience with legacy migrations and re-architecture projects at 20M+ user scale.
• Strong backend engineering skills in high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems, and proficiency in Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience building systems where financial correctness matters - commissions, payouts, wallets, ledgers or equivalent - is a strong advantage.
• A fintech or payments background is strongly preferred. CRM or SalesTech domain experience is nice to have and explicitly not required.
• Exposure to customer engagement or marketing automation platforms such as Braze is a plus, but not a requirement.

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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