Head of Engineering – Rewards

🕒 September 11

🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👮‍♀️ 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 Rewards Platform end to end • Improve the performance, reliability, and depth of the existing cashback product • Evolve cashback into a broader rewards, retention, engagement, and personalisation platform • Build the engineering organisation from its current base, including product units, engineers, and Engineering Managers • Establish an experimentation culture using A/B testing, cohort analysis, and measurement • Partner with Growth, Sales, and Marketing on acquisition and retention initiatives • Own customer-facing rewards experiences across mobile and web • Define architecture standards, engineering processes, and quality metrics • Own engineering health, including incidents, production defects, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and developer experience • Build the platform to serve customers across multiple geographies • Partner with Product on rewards metrics and OKRs • Report functionally to the Group CTO and through a delivery relationship to the Product leader for Rewards

🎯 Requirements

• Direct-to-consumer product engineering experience at scale • Genuine front-end and mobile engineering depth • Hands-on experience with A/B testing, feature flagging, and measurement frameworks • At least 5 years of experience managing managers • Meaningful hands-on engineering experience and technical credibility • 10+ years of overall software engineering experience • At least 5 years leading engineering teams through growth phases • Comfort with Java and Spring Boot backend environments • Experience building and scaling an engineering organisation from a small base • Experience hiring and developing Engineering Managers • Strong collaboration with growth, marketing, and sales stakeholders • Rewards, loyalty, gamification, personalisation, or growth platform experience is advantageous but not required • Fintech or payments experience is advantageous but not required

🏖️ Benefits

• A rare blank page to define the future of the Rewards platform • Direct influence on retention across roughly 23 million users • Full autonomy as the CTO of the engineering domain • Backing to build the organisation required by the problem • Mission-driven company expanding access to financial services • Equal opportunity and inclusive work environment