[Hiring] Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform @Moniepoint

Role Description

More than 6 million businesses run their financial lives through Moniepoint - and the primary way they interact with us every single day is through a POS device. For most of our merchants, that device is their business. It is how they accept payments, how they access credit, and how they track their finances. Everything those devices are capable of, in terms of speed, reliability, and developer quality, flows from the engineering platform this role leads.

We are building a dedicated POS Application Platform function: the foundational Kotlin-based engineering layer that sits beneath every POS product at Moniepoint. Think of it as the operating system for our POS engineering organisation - the standards, frameworks, tooling, and architectural backbone that every POS engineer across the business builds on top of. This is not a feature team. It is a platform team in the truest sense, and the Head of Engineering for POS Application Platform is the technical owner of that layer.

We currently operate across five POS device types from multiple OEM manufacturers, all running on Android. The engineering challenges here span:

• Device governance
• Developer experience
• Platform reliability
• Foundational frameworks
• Adoption across a distributed set of POS engineers working in separate product squads

And the scope is growing. We have a UK entity live, a cross-border payments product in market, and a microfinance bank acquisition which just finalized in Kenya. The platform you build will become the foundation for tens of millions of businesses across multiple markets to accept payments, access financial services, and grow. If you have spent your career going deep on POS systems and you want to build the platform that underpins one of Africa's most consequential fintech businesses during its expansion, this is the role.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Strong working knowledge of EMV standards (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) and experience navigating payment certification processes such as PCI DSS and P2PE.
• Deep Android engineering expertise in Kotlin and Java.
• Proven experience building internal engineering platforms, shared libraries, developer tooling, or foundational frameworks used by other engineering teams.
• Experience governing or architecting across multiple POS device types from different hardware manufacturers.
• Experience building or maturing platform engineering functions.
• Demonstrated ability to scale engineering teams and build the organisational layer beneath you.
• Experience at a company processing high volumes of financial transactions in a regulated environment.
• Familiarity with terminal management systems and device observability tooling is a strong advantage.
• Backend engineering experience in Java or Spring Boot is a strong plus.
• Experience working directly with OEM vendors on hardware specification and integration is a bonus.
• Exposure to C or C++ is a plus.
• Experience at Series A or B stage startups alone is unlikely to reflect the scale and complexity required for this role.

Requirements

• Own the technical strategy and architecture for the POS Application Platform.
• Build and govern the four core platform pillars across the organisation: developer experience, platform reliability, foundational frameworks, and squad adoption.
• Define and enforce engineering standards across all POS device types and OEM manufacturers.
• Functionally lead POS engineers embedded across various squads.
• Own POS observability end-to-end.
• Drive the architecture for how Moniepoint supports multiple POS device types.
• Collaborate with OEM partners and the POS hardware team when new device types are introduced.
• Build and scale the POS platform team.
• Translate platform decisions into business impact.
• Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, tooling standards, and developer productivity metrics.

Benefits

• Culture - We put our people first and prioritise the well-being of every team member.
• Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing.
• Compensation - You will receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, plus other benefits.

Company Description

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.