Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform

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🇰🇪 Kenya – 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 and architecture for the POS Application Platform, acting as the domain CTO for everything running on POS devices • Build and govern developer experience, platform reliability, foundational frameworks, and squad adoption across the organisation • Define and enforce engineering standards across POS device types and OEM manufacturers • Functionally lead POS engineers embedded across Payments, Onboarding, VAS, Savings, and Loans squads • Own POS observability end-to-end, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks • Drive architecture for supporting multiple POS device types, including onboarding, governance, and platform integration • Collaborate with OEM partners and the POS hardware team when introducing new device types • Build and scale the POS platform team through hiring, mentoring, and organisational structuring • Translate platform decisions into business impact with Product, Payments, and Business leadership across markets • Establish and improve engineering processes, tooling standards, CI/CD pipelines, and developer productivity metrics • Participate in technical, system design, architectural leadership, CTO, and cultural alignment interviews as part of the hiring process

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience • At least 6 years leading engineering teams through meaningful growth phases • Direct, hands-on experience building software that runs on Point-of-Sale terminal devices, specifically the application layer • Strong working knowledge of EMV standards • Experience navigating payment certification processes such as PCI DSS and P2PE • Deep Android engineering expertise in Kotlin and Java • Proven experience building internal engineering platforms, shared libraries, developer tooling, or foundational frameworks used by other engineering teams • Experience governing or architecting across multiple POS device types from different hardware manufacturers • Experience with OEM integrations and device management at scale • Experience building or maturing platform engineering functions • Experience establishing engineering processes, tooling strategies, and cross-squad governance structures • Demonstrated ability to scale engineering teams and build the organisational layer beneath you • Experience at a company processing high volumes of financial transactions in a regulated environment • Fintech background strongly preferred • Familiarity with terminal management systems and device observability tooling is a strong advantage • Backend engineering experience in Java or Spring Boot is a strong plus • Experience working directly with OEM vendors on hardware specification and integration is a bonus • Exposure to C or C++ is a plus • Experience in multinational or large VC-backed companies is ideal • Experience at Series A or B stage startups alone is unlikely to reflect the required scale and complexity

🏖️ Benefits

• Attractive salary • Pension • Health insurance • Annual bonus • Other benefits • Learning and development-focused environment • Knowledge sharing • Training • Regular internal technical talks • People-first culture prioritising team member well-being • Inclusive environment where all opinions carry weight and voices are heard