Head of Engineering, Field Verification

Job description

About this role

Who we are Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions.

Responsibilities

• - Owning the technical strategy, architecture and roadmap for the Field Verification platform end to end, and setting direction for a domain that has been running without dedicated engineering leadership.
• - Moving the platform from keep-the-lights-on operation to deliberate, prioritised development.
• - Leading and growing the existing cross-functional team, and building the organisation out as scope expands.
• - Building the operational efficiency layer — trip and route optimisation, task allocation and capacity management for field officers.
• - Owning the platform's client-facing surface: the APIs and webhooks that other business units integrate with, and the back office those units rely on.

Qualifications and requirements

• - You have built things yourself, and grew into leadership from there. We are explicit about this: we are not looking for someone who moved into management early and has led from a distance since. We want an engineer who became a leader.
• - You are capable across disciplines. Backend, web and mobile. This platform spans all three and you will need credibility in each — a specialist in one layer will struggle here.
• - You have built platforms, not just products. Systems used by several distinct groups of users and internal business units, with the flexibility to serve requirements you did not anticipate.
• - You are a problem solver first. We would rather have someone adaptable than someone with the exact domain experience. Having built across different industries — fintech, e-commerce, logistics or otherwise — is a positive signal, not a scattered CV.
• - You have 10+ years of overall software engineering experience, with substantial hands-on production engineering and strong backend depth. Our backend environment is Java and Spring Boot.