Head of Engineering, Rewards

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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, 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 by structuring product units, hiring engineers and Engineering Managers, and leading through managers • Establish an experimentation culture using A/B testing, cohort analysis and customer-behaviour measurement • Work with Growth, Sales and Marketing to translate acquisition and retention objectives into product and engineering initiatives • Own the customer-facing rewards experience 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 to define rewards-specific metrics and OKRs • Report functionally to the Group CTO with a dual reporting line into the Product leader for Rewards

🎯 Requirements

• Direct-to-consumer product engineering at scale, with products shipped for large consumer audiences • Genuine front-end and mobile engineering depth across consumer-facing web and mobile experiences • 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, including 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

• Full autonomy over engineering strategy, architecture, hiring, operating cadence and roadmap trade-offs • Direct influence on retention across a base of roughly 23 million users • Mission-driven work expanding access to financial services • Equal opportunity and inclusive work environment