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Head of Engineering

3 hours, 27 minutes ago
Poland
Full-time
Lead
Head of Engineering
Software Development
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Moniepoint

Moniepoint

Moniepoint offers a comprehensive payments, banking, and operations platform designed to support the growth of businesses and enhance financial accessibility for customers in emerging markets.

Diversified Financial Services
1K-5K
Founded 2015
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Description

  • Drive the company-wide technology strategy and align technical execution with business goals.
  • Own the technical strategy across architecture, infrastructure, delivery, reliability, security, and regulatory compliance.
  • Guide architectural and solution design decisions across teams and remove technical roadblocks.
  • Build, lead, and scale multiple engineering teams, including managers and senior individual contributors.
  • Mentor engineers, support career development, plan succession, and manage performance across the organization.
  • Lead hiring strategy and org design to support engineering growth.
  • Establish and improve observability, monitoring, alerting, and incident management practices.
  • Improve software reliability, operational excellence, and incident response across the platform.
  • Set standards for engineering excellence, including code quality, testing, QA automation, documentation, and CI/CD maturity.
  • Reduce technical debt and improve codebase health, maintainability, and engineering metrics.
  • Track and optimize KPIs such as system performance, transaction success rates, infrastructure efficiency, cost, and team velocity.
  • Collaborate with Product, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Sales, Marketing, and Business stakeholders to align delivery with priorities and regulations.
  • Ensure systems are secure by design, with ownership of data privacy, fraud prevention, and regulatory readiness.
  • Build and maintain long-term technical and architectural roadmaps.
  • Contribute to broader engineering initiatives across payments, lending, savings, deposits, cards, and business management platforms.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
  • 12-15 years of hands-on software development experience.
  • 5+ years of experience leading multiple engineering teams and driving large-scale technical initiatives.
  • Strong prior experience as a Software Engineer with a track record of designing scalable systems and working in software architecture.
  • Strong backend engineering experience with production deployment experience using Spring Boot or similar modern backend frameworks.
  • Frontend exposure is a plus.
  • Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment systems.
  • Experience managing technical debt at scale.
  • Ability to lead managers and multiple cross-functional teams simultaneously in fast-paced environments.
  • Experience managing distributed and remote teams across multiple geographies.
  • Strong experience with agile methodologies, sprint planning, and technical resource management.
  • Proven track record in mentoring, performance management, and developing high-performing teams.
  • Ability to drive alignment across engineering and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience introducing engineering improvements that increase productivity, delivery speed, and operational efficiency.
  • Experience in fintech or regulated technology environments is a strong plus.
  • Exposure to emerging markets or interest in financial inclusion is advantageous.
  • Strong agency, ownership, grit, clarity of thought, empathy, and a no-ego mindset are required cultural attributes.

Benefits

  • Attractive salary.
  • Pension contribution.
  • Health insurance.
  • Employee stock options.
  • Annual bonus.
  • Learning and development-focused environment with knowledge sharing and training.
  • Regular internal technical talks.
  • Remote-friendly role (#LI-Remote).

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