Head of Engineering, Sales Management Tools

Remote, London, United Kingdom

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.

Our London office, located at Sea Containers by London Bridge, is home to more than 70 team members, including senior leaders from companies like Tide, Klarna, Revolut, Capital One, Teya, Wise, Starling, and Monzo. We are now looking for a Head of Engineering, Sales Management Tools, to join us in the UK.

About The Role

Sales Management Tools owns MonieCRM, the operating system for Moniepoint's 50,000-strong sales network. This in-house built workforce operations platform supports a multi-level field sales hierarchy, managing portfolios, teams, goals, performance, and resources. It also includes an emerging AI-assisted support layer. The platform handles financial transactions, including wallets, commission calculations, and welfare funds, making financial correctness a core engineering requirement.

The role involves modernizing and ensuring the reliability of systems that serve over 20 million users. This is a platform engineering and legacy modernization challenge, and prior CRM or SalesTech experience is not required.

Responsibilities

• Modernize and re-architect legacy systems for improved reliability and performance.
• Ensure accurate and timely calculation, attribution, and payment of commissions and earnings at network scale.
• Develop a scalable sales and marketing platform for a growing agent network across multiple markets.
• Lead a high-performing engineering team with strong managerial and senior engineering capabilities.

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, leading an engineering organization through other engineering leaders.
• Proven platform engineering experience at scale, building and running complex distributed systems.
• Experience in navigating 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.
• Experience building systems where financial correctness matters.
• A fintech or payments background is strongly preferred.

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 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 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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