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Head of Engineering, Rewards at Moniepoint Incorporated

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About the role

Moniepoint is Africa’s all-in-one financial ecosystem, processing $182 billion in 2023. As the Head of Engineering, Rewards, you will report functionally to the Group CTO and to the Product leader for Rewards. Your primary goal is to evolve the existing cashback product into a comprehensive rewards, retention, and personalisation platform for business customers, consumers, and sales agents.

You will own the customer-facing experience across mobile and web, ensuring customers receive their rewards quickly and reliably. A key part of this role is establishing a strong experimentation culture using A/B testing and cohort analysis to drive product decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Rewards Platform.
  • Build the engineering organisation by structuring product units, hiring engineers and Engineering Managers, and leading through them.
  • Define architecture standards, engineering processes, and quality metrics, while owning the engineering health of the domain.
  • Partner with Product to define rewards-specific metrics and OKRs.
  • Collaborate with Growth, Sales, and Marketing to translate business objectives into engineering initiatives.
  • Build the platform to serve customers across multiple geographies as Moniepoint expands.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of overall software engineering experience.
  • At least 5 years of experience managing engineering managers.
  • Hands-on experience with experimentation, A/B testing, and measurement frameworks.
  • Direct-to-consumer product engineering experience at scale, with genuine front-end and mobile depth.
  • Comfort with Java and Spring Boot backend environments.
  • Experience building and scaling an engineering organisation from a small base.
  • Fintech or payments experience is an advantage but not required.

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