Head of Engineering – Sales & Marketing Tools

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

📋 Description

• Lead the engineering efforts for MonieCRM, the in-house workforce operations platform of Moniepoint, supporting a sales network of 50,000 individuals.

• Modernize and restructure rapidly developed legacy systems.

• Enhance platform reliability and performance, catering to over 20 million users.

• Take ownership of systems related to onboarding, network management, pipeline and portfolio, performance and goals, compensation, sales experience, and support.

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

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

• Scale a sales and marketing platform across various markets.

• Build a high-performing engineering organization with capable managers and senior engineers.

• Guarantee that commissions and earnings are calculated, attributed, and disbursed accurately and punctually.

• Collaborate effectively with product and business stakeholders.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10–15 years of comprehensive software engineering experience.

• A minimum of 5 years in leadership roles within engineering teams during growth phases.

• Over 5 years of hands-on, production-level experience in writing and deploying Java code.

• At least 5 years of experience in managing managers and guiding an engineering organization through other engineering leaders.

• Demonstrated platform engineering experience at scale, including handling complex distributed systems.

• Experience in navigating legacy migrations and re-architecture projects at a scale of 20 million users or more.

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

• Proficient in Java and Spring Boot.

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

• Familiarity with financial correctness systems such as commissions, payouts, wallets, or ledgers is highly advantageous.

• A background in fintech or payments is strongly preferred.

• CRM or SalesTech experience is not explicitly 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.

• A genuine mandate for platform modernization with the autonomy and support to see it through.

• An opportunity to influence millions of businesses and individuals across Africa and beyond.

• An equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering diversity and an inclusive environment.