Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform

Moniepoint Group
Spain
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Architecture","System design","Collaboration","Communication"]

Lead the POS Application Platform engineering function, acting as the domain CTO for devices running Android-based POS software. Define architectural standards, ensure platform reliability, and scale the platform team across markets, while maintaining 40-60% hands-on coding and collaborating with product and leadership to drive business impact.

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Moniepoint Group
Moniepoint Group
2 months ago

Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform

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Job Summary

Lead the POS Application Platform engineering function, acting as the domain CTO for devices running Android-based POS software. Define architectural standards, ensure platform reliability, and scale the platform team across markets, while maintaining 40-60% hands-on coding and collaborating with product and leadership to drive business impact.
Location: Spain
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 the domain CTO for everything that runs on our POS devices.
  • •Define and enforce engineering standards across all POS device types and OEM manufacturers to ensure architectural consistency and quality.
  • •Functionally lead POS engineers embedded across multiple squads, setting the bar for engineering quality and providing the platform layer above them.
  • •Own POS observability end-to-end: monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks to ensure platform health across devices and squads.
  • •Write and review code directly (40-60% hands-on) while building and scaling the platform team and driving adoption of platform tooling across the organization.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsuranceAnnual BonusPension

Key Requirements

  • •A minimum of 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 6 years leading engineering teams through meaningful growth phases, ideally in multi-national or large VC-backed companies.
  • •Direct, hands-on experience building software that runs on Point-of-Sale terminal devices (the application layer on the device).
  • •Strong working knowledge of EMV standards (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) and experience with PCI DSS and P2PE certification processes.
  • •Deep Android engineering expertise in Kotlin and Java (POS app layer is Android-based).
  • •Proven experience building internal engineering platforms, shared libraries, developer tooling, or foundational frameworks used by other teams.
Experience:10+ yearsFintechPaymentsPOS
Skills:LeadershipArchitectureSystem designCollaborationCommunication
Languages:English
Tech Stack:AndroidKotlinJavaEMVPCI DSSP2PEDockerKubernetesPostgreSQLDynamoDBElasticsearchAWSSpring 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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