Head of Engineering, Field Verification

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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👮‍♀️ Software Engineering Manager

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Moniepoint Inc. (Formerly TeamApt Inc.)

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1001 - 5000 employees

💳 Fintech

🏦 Banking

Fintech • Banking • Payments

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa's all-in-one financial ecosystem that provides seamless solutions in payments, banking, credit, and business management for over 10 million businesses and individuals. Operating as Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer, Moniepoint powers the majority of Point of Sale (POS) transactions in the country. The company processes $17 billion monthly while ensuring profitable operations. With operations starting in 2019, Moniepoint continues to support businesses through its comprehensive financial services platform, making significant strides in financial inclusion across emerging markets.

📋 Description

• Own the technical strategy, architecture and roadmap for the Field Verification platform end to end • Move the platform from keep-the-lights-on operation to deliberate, prioritised development • Lead and grow the existing cross-functional team and build the organisation as scope expands • Build trip and route optimisation, task allocation and capacity management for field officers • Own APIs, webhooks and the back office used by other business units • Deliver a native mobile experience for field officers • Ensure verification data is structured, auditable and suitable for compliance scrutiny • Build for multi-country expansion • Partner with Product and onboarding, loans, compliance and fraud business units • Define architecture standards, engineering processes and quality metrics • Hire and develop engineers and Engineering Managers

🎯 Requirements

• Built things hands-on and grew into leadership from engineering • Capability across backend, web and mobile disciplines • Experience building platforms serving several distinct user groups and internal business units • Adaptability and problem-solving across industries • 10+ years of overall software engineering experience • Substantial hands-on production engineering experience • Strong backend depth; backend environment is Java and Spring Boot • At least 5 years of engineering leadership experience, including managing Engineering Managers • Ability to collaborate with product and business stakeholders and translate operational requirements into engineering solutions • Experience with location and geospatial data, including map integrations, is a strong plus • Experience with route, trip or delivery optimisation is a strong plus • Experience building for compliance is a strong plus • Experience with identity, KYC or verification platforms is a plus, not a requirement

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • Opportunity to set the technical direction for a greenfield mandate on a system that already matters • Remit to build and grow the organisation • Breadth across backend, web, mobile, location data, compliance and operational optimisation • Mission-driven work expanding access to financial services for millions of businesses and individuals