Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform
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Head of Engineering owning Moniepoint’s Kotlin-based POS application platform. Leading Android engineering standards, reliability, architecture, and platform teams for expanding financial services.
Responsibilities:
- Own the technical strategy and architecture for the POS Application Platform as domain CTO for software running on POS devices
- Build and govern developer experience, platform reliability, foundational frameworks, and squad adoption
- Define and enforce engineering standards across POS device types and OEM manufacturers
- Functionally lead POS engineers embedded across Payments, Onboarding, VAS, Savings, and Loans squads
- Own POS observability, including monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks
- Drive architecture for supporting multiple POS device types, including onboarding, governance, and integration
- Collaborate with OEM partners and the POS hardware team on new device introductions
- Build and scale the POS platform team through hiring, mentoring, and structuring for international growth
- Translate platform decisions into business impact with Product, Payments, and Business leadership
- Improve engineering processes, tooling standards, CI/CD pipelines, and developer productivity metrics
Requirements:
- Minimum 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience
- At least 6 years leading engineering teams through meaningful growth phases
- Direct, hands-on experience building software on Point-of-Sale terminal devices at the application layer; candidates without this will not be considered
- Strong working knowledge of EMV standards
- Experience navigating payment certification processes such as PCI DSS and P2PE; candidates without this will not be considered
- Deep Android engineering expertise in Kotlin and Java; no exceptions
- Experience building internal engineering platforms, shared libraries, developer tooling, or foundational frameworks
- Experience governing or architecting across multiple POS device types from different hardware manufacturers
- Experience building or maturing platform engineering functions
- Ability to scale engineering teams and build the organisational layer beneath the role
- Experience at a company processing high volumes of financial transactions in a regulated environment
- Fintech background strongly preferred
- 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 required scale and complexity
Benefits:
- Pension
- Health insurance
- Annual bonus
- Learning and development-focused environment
- Knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks
- Culture prioritising employee well-being, inclusion, respect, and having all voices heard
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