Head of Engineering, Rewards

Moniepoint Group
Kenya
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Customer obsession","Ownership","Collaboration","Urgency","Integrity","Candour","Systemisation","Craft"]

Own Moniepoint’s Rewards platform end to end, starting with improving cashback performance for millions of users and evolving it into a full rewards, retention, engagement, and personalisation engine. Lead a team of engineers and grow the organisation through product units, partnering with Growth, Sales, and Marketing to ship experimentation-driven improvements. Operate as a domain CTO—owning roadmap, architecture, delivery, quality metrics, and the customer experience across mobile and web.

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Moniepoint Group
Moniepoint Group
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Head of Engineering, Rewards

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Job Summary

Own Moniepoint’s Rewards platform end to end, starting with improving cashback performance for millions of users and evolving it into a full rewards, retention, engagement, and personalisation engine. Lead a team of engineers and grow the organisation through product units, partnering with Growth, Sales, and Marketing to ship experimentation-driven improvements. Operate as a domain CTO—owning roadmap, architecture, delivery, quality metrics, and the customer experience across mobile and web.
Location: Kenya
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the Rewards platform technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap end to end.
  • •Improve the performance, reliability, and depth of the existing cashback product as the initial priority.
  • •Evolve cashback into a broader rewards, retention, engagement, and personalisation platform for business customers, consumer customers, and sales agents.
  • •Build and scale the engineering organisation by structuring product units, hiring engineers and Engineering Managers, and leading through them.
  • •Establish and drive experimentation practices (A/B testing, cohort analysis, measurement) and partner with Growth, Sales, and Marketing to translate acquisition and retention objectives into engineering initiatives.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years leading engineering teams through growth phases.
  • •At least 5 years managing managers and leading an engineering organisation through other engineering leaders.
  • •Direct-to-consumer product engineering experience at scale with front-end and mobile depth (not backend-only).
  • •Hands-on experimentation and growth engineering experience, including A/B testing, feature flagging, and measurement frameworks.
  • •Comfort leading credible backend engineering, including Java and Spring Boot, even if your primary depth is front-end/mobile.
Experience:FintechPaymentsDirect-to-consumerConsumer engagementExperimentation
Skills:Customer obsessionOwnershipCollaborationUrgencyIntegrityCandourSystemisationCraft
Tech Stack:JavaSpring Boot

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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