Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform

Moniepoint Group
South Africa
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Leadership","Mentoring","Ownership","Systemization","First-principles thinking"]

Own the technical strategy, architecture, and cross-squad governance for Moniepoint’s POS Application Platform—the Kotlin-based foundation powering Android POS devices. Lead engineering standards, platform reliability, observability, and developer experience, while ensuring consistent architecture across multiple device types and OEMs. Functionally lead POS engineers across Payments, Onboarding, VAS, Savings, and Loans, and build/scaling the platform team through international expansion.

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Moniepoint Group
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Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform

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Job Summary

Own the technical strategy, architecture, and cross-squad governance for Moniepoint’s POS Application Platform—the Kotlin-based foundation powering Android POS devices. Lead engineering standards, platform reliability, observability, and developer experience, while ensuring consistent architecture across multiple device types and OEMs. Functionally lead POS engineers across Payments, Onboarding, VAS, Savings, and Loans, and build/scaling the platform team through international expansion.
Location: South Africa
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the technical strategy and architecture for the POS Application Platform, acting as domain CTO for POS devices.
  • •Build and govern platform pillars across developer experience, platform reliability, foundational frameworks, and squad adoption.
  • •Define and enforce engineering standards across POS device types and OEM manufacturers to ensure consistent quality.
  • •Functionally lead POS engineers embedded across Payments, Onboarding, VAS, Savings, and Loans squads, raising engineering quality across all squads.
  • •Own POS observability end-to-end, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks for platform health.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:PensionHealth InsuranceAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •Minimum 10 years hands-on software engineering experience, including at least 6 years leading engineering teams through meaningful growth phases.
  • •Direct, hands-on experience building software that runs on point-of-sale terminal devices (application layer on the device).
  • •Strong knowledge of EMV standards and experience with payment certification processes such as PCI DSS and P2PE.
  • •Deep Android engineering expertise in Kotlin and Java for POS application development.
  • •Experience building internal engineering platforms, shared libraries/tooling/frameworks, and governing across multiple POS device types from different hardware manufacturers.
Experience:FintechPaymentsAndroidPOSPlatform engineering
Skills:LeadershipMentoringOwnershipSystemizationFirst-principles thinking
Languages:English
Tech Stack:KotlinJavaAndroidEMVPCI DSSP2PESpring BootAWSMicroservicesDockerKubernetesPostgreSQLDynamoDBElasticsearchCI/CDObservability

Company Brief

Moniepoint Group
Provides digital payments, merchant services, agent banking, card issuance, and business banking solutions across Nigeria and other African markets, serving SMEs, merchants, and financial institutions with technology-first transaction and banking infrastructure.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Lagos, Nigeria
Founded: 2015
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