About the Role
Moniepoint is a leading financial technology company digitizing Africa's real economy by building an innovative financial ecosystem for businesses and consumers. We are seeking a visionary and hands-on Head of Engineering for Rewards to spearhead the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for our comprehensive rewards platform. In this strategic leadership role, you will report functionally to the Group CTO while partnering closely with the Product leader for Rewards to build, scale, and inspire a world-class engineering organization.
Key Responsibilities- Own the end-to-end technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Moniepoint Rewards Platform, driving performance, reliability, and scale.
- Evolve our existing cashback product into a broader, dynamic rewards, retention, engagement, and personalization platform serving businesses, consumers, and sales agents.
- Build and scale the engineering organization from its current base, structuring product units, hiring top-tier engineering managers, and leading through them.
- Establish a robust experimentation culture utilizing A/B testing, cohort analysis, and rapid measurement cycles to understand and influence customer behavior.
- Partner collaboratively with Growth, Sales, and Marketing teams to seamlessly translate commercial objectives into high-impact engineering initiatives.
- Define rigorous architecture standards, engineering processes, and quality metrics to ensure operational health, optimal developer experience, and seamless multi-geography expansion.
- Over 10 years of overall software engineering experience, including a minimum of 5 years managing engineering managers and leading teams through rapid growth phases.
- Demonstrated expertise in direct-to-consumer product engineering at scale, with deep front-end, mobile, and web experience.
- Strong background in growth engineering, experimentation frameworks, feature flagging, and data-driven product decision-making.
- Technical credibility with backend technologies, specifically Java and Spring Boot, allowing you to credibly guide backend engineering teams.
- Proven track record of scaling engineering organizations from a small base, including hiring, mentoring, and developing technical leaders.
- Experience in fintech, payments, loyalty, or gamification platforms is considered a strong advantage.
- Competitive salary and compensation package structured to attract top industry talent.
- Opportunity to shape the financial technology landscape across multiple African markets.
- Collaborative, high-growth work environment with peers who value engineering excellence and innovation.
- Continuous professional development and leadership growth opportunities within a scaling fintech pioneer.