Head of Engineering – Sales & Marketing Tools

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

📋 Description

• Lead the engineering efforts for MonieCRM, the internal workforce operations platform that supports Moniepoint's extensive sales network of 50,000 professionals.

• Modernize and re-architect legacy systems accommodating over 20 million users.

• Design and manage intricate distributed platform systems.

• Ensure financial accuracy across wallets, commission calculations, attributions, cashouts, and welfare funds.

• Supervise partner management, rewards and retention platforms, as well as the marketing technology stack, including Braze.

• Enhance system reliability and performance.

• Empower commercial teams to operate more efficiently through reliable tooling.

• Cultivate a high-performing engineering organization with strong leaders and senior engineers.

• Expand the sales and marketing platform across multiple regions.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10–15 years of comprehensive software engineering experience.

• A minimum of 5 years leading engineering teams during growth phases.

• Over 5 years of practical, production-level experience in writing and deploying Java applications.

• At least 5 years of experience managing managers and steering an engineering organization through engineering leadership.

• Demonstrated experience in platform engineering at scale, particularly in building and maintaining complex distributed systems.

• Proven track record in handling legacy migrations and re-architecture projects for systems with over 20 million users.

• Strong backend engineering capabilities in high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems.

• Proficiency in Java and Spring Boot is essential.

• Experience in managing and developing engineering teams of 20 or more members.

• Familiarity with financial correctness systems such as commissions, payouts, wallets, or ledgers is a significant advantage.

• A background in fintech or payments is strongly preferred.

• CRM or SalesTech experience is explicitly not required.

• Exposure to customer engagement or marketing automation platforms like Braze is a plus, but not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Take ownership of the platform that drives the commercial engine of one of Africa's largest digital banks.

• Genuine platform modernization initiative with the autonomy and support to successfully implement it.

• Be part of a mission-driven organization that impacts millions of businesses and individuals across Africa and beyond.

• Join an equal opportunity employer dedicated to diversity and inclusion.