Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Nigeria.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the technical strategy and architecture for the POS Application Platform.

• Establish and oversee developer experience, platform reliability, essential frameworks, and squad engagement.

• Define and uphold engineering standards across various POS device types and OEM manufacturers.

• Provide functional leadership to POS engineers embedded within Payments, Onboarding, VAS, Savings, and Loans squads.

• Manage POS observability, including monitoring, alerting, and incident-response frameworks.

• Lead the architectural design for onboarding, governing, and integrating new POS device types.

• Collaborate with OEM partners and the POS hardware team for the introduction of new devices.

• Develop and expand the POS platform team through hiring, mentoring, and organizational structuring.

• Convert platform decisions into business impacts alongside Product, Payments, and Business leadership.

• Enhance engineering processes, tooling standards, CI/CD pipelines, and metrics for developer productivity.

• Engage in technical, system design, architectural leadership, and CTO interviews as part of the recruitment process.

⛳️ Requirements

• At least 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience.

• Minimum of 6 years leading engineering teams through significant growth phases.

• Direct, hands-on experience in developing software on Point-of-Sale terminal devices at the application layer.

• Strong understanding of EMV standards.

• Experience with payment certification processes, including PCI DSS and P2PE.

• Extensive Android engineering expertise in Kotlin and Java.

• Proven experience in building internal engineering platforms, shared libraries, developer tooling, or foundational frameworks.

• Background in governing or architecting solutions across multiple POS device types from various hardware manufacturers.

• Experience with OEM integrations and device management at scale.

• Proven track record in building or enhancing platform engineering functions.

• Demonstrated ability to scale engineering teams effectively.

• Experience in a company that processes high volumes of financial transactions within a regulated environment.

• Fintech experience is strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with terminal management systems and device observability tools is a significant advantage.

• Backend engineering experience in Java or Spring Boot is a notable plus.

• Experience collaborating directly with OEM vendors on hardware specifications and integration is a bonus.

• Exposure to C or C++ is beneficial.

• Experience solely in Series A or B stage startups may not adequately reflect the required scale and complexity.

🏝️ Benefits

• Pension.

• Health insurance.

• Annual bonus.

• Environment focused on learning and development.

• Knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical discussions.

• People-first culture that prioritizes the well-being of team members.

• Inclusive and equal-opportunity workplace.