About the Role
Moniepoint is a leading financial technology company digitising Africa’s real economy by building a robust financial ecosystem for businesses. We are looking for a strategic Head of Engineering, POS Hardware and Device Platforms, to oversee the software estate powering millions of payment terminals across multiple global markets. This is a backend and distributed systems leadership role focused on inventory, logistics, and repair workflows at massive scale, rather than hardware engineering.
Key Responsibilities- Own the technical strategy and architecture for inventory, logistics, and repair management software systems.
- Lead and scale an engineering organisation of 25+ professionals, including managers, QA, SRE, and Data Engineering.
- Drive the platformisation of supply chain systems to ensure operational data is visible, trustworthy, and consistent across millions of POS terminals.
- Establish rigorous architecture standards, quality metrics, and engineering processes across distributed squads.
- Collaborate closely with business and operational stakeholders to translate physical operations into high-performance software solutions.
- 10 to 15 years of overall software engineering experience, with 5+ years leading engineering teams through major growth phases.
- Minimum of 5 years of hands-on, production-level Java coding experience as a practising engineer.
- At least 5 years of experience managing engineering managers within distributed environments.
- Proven background in large-scale supply chain, warehouse, inventory, or logistics software.
- Deep understanding of fintech or regulated industry operational stakes, combined with expert distributed systems design abilities.
- Lead core engineering for one of Africa's largest POS networks and directly drive international expansion.
- Work in a high-impact, innovative environment bridging fintech and physical device operations.
- Join a mission-driven company dedicated to empowering businesses and individuals across Africa and beyond.