Remote Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform
Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually. Have you got what it takes to succeed The following information should be read carefully by all candidates.
The UK is home to our headquarters where more than 70 team members are based. Our London office is located at Sea Containers, just by London Bridge - this is also where a significant number of our most senior leaders sit, which makes it a natural base for a Head of Engineering.
So, now we are looking for our Head of Engineering, POS Apps to join us in the UK.
More than 6 million businesses run their financial lives through Moniepoint - and the primary way they interact with us every single day is through a POS device. Everything those devices are capable of, in terms of speed, reliability, and developer quality, flows from the engineering platform this role leads.
We are building a dedicated POS Application Platform function: the foundational Kotlin-based engineering layer that sits beneath every POS product at Moniepoint. Think of it as the operating system for our POS engineering organisation - the standards, frameworks, tooling, and architectural backbone that every POS engineer across the business builds on top of. It is a platform team in the truest sense, and the Head of Engineering for POS Application Platform is the technical owner of that layer.
We currently operate across five POS device types from multiple OEM manufacturers, all running on Android. The engineering challenges here span device governance, developer experience, platform reliability, foundational frameworks, and adoption across a distributed set of POS engineers working in separate product squads.
We have a UK entity live, a cross-border payments product in market, and a microfinance bank acquisition which just finalized in Kenya. The platform you build will become the foundation for tens of millions of businesses across multiple markets to accept payments, access financial services, and grow. Build and govern the four core platform pillars across the organisation: developer experience (tools, libraries, SDKs), platform reliability (observability, uptime, quality standards), foundational frameworks (architecture, coding standards, testing and release pipelines), and squad adoption (driving uptake of platform tooling across all embedded POS engineers).
Define and enforce engineering standards across all POS device types and OEM manufacturers, ensuring architectural consistency and quality across a heterogeneous device fleet.
Functionally lead POS engineers embedded across Payments, Onboarding, VAS, Savings, and Loans squads - setting the bar for engineering quality and providing the platform layer above all of them.
Own POS observability end-to-end: monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks that ensure platform health across all devices and squads.
Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, tooling standards, CI/CD pipelines, and developer productivity metrics across the POS engineering community.
A minimum of 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 6 years leading engineering teams through meaningful growth phases, ideally in multi-national or large VC-backed companies.
Direct, hands-on experience building software that runs on Point-of-Sale terminal devices. This means engineering on the device itself — the application layer — not server-side integrations with POS systems. Strong working knowledge of EMV standards (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) and experience navigating payment certification processes such as PCI DSS and P2PE. Deep Android engineering expertise in Kotlin and Java. The POS application layer at Moniepoint is Android-based and there are no exceptions to this requirement.
Proven experience building internal engineering platforms, shared libraries, developer tooling, or foundational frameworks used by other engineering teams — not just consumer-facing feature products.
Experience building or maturing platform engineering functions, including establishing engineering processes, tooling strategies, and cross-squad governance structures.
Demonstrated ability to scale engineering teams and build the organisational layer beneath you — leaders who can grow into and around the role you are hiring into.
Experience at a company processing high volumes of financial transactions in a regulated environment. Backend engineering experience in Java or Spring Boot is a strong plus given the breadth of the platform and the integration surface it sits on.
Experience working directly with OEM vendors on hardware specification and integration is a bonus.
Exposure to C or C++ is a plus — one of our device variants uses C.
Reason from first principles, make trade-offs explicit, and raise the bar on quality.
Reduce cognitive load and raise engineering quality.
Act autonomously within scope, remove friction, and escalate risks early.
Surface uncomfortable truths and risks early. Performance without integrity is unacceptable. Android (Kotlin, Java) - primary platform for all POS application development
Java, Spring Boot — backend services and integration layer
PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
Microservices architecture on AWS
Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
Compensation - You will receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, plus other benefits.
A preliminary phone call with one of our recruiters.
Technical Round focused on core technical strengths and depth in Android/Kotlin
Technical and Architectural Leadership - An interview with one Head of Engineering focused on leadership skills and attributes.
Please send us your CV or LinkedIn profile via our career website.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates! xehkeey
#LI-Remote
Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.
The UK is home to our headquarters where more than 70 team members are based. Our London office is located at Sea Containers, just by London Bridge - this is also where a significant number of our most senior leaders sit, which makes it a natural base for a Head of Engineering.
So, now we are looking for our Head of Engineering, POS Apps to join us in the UK.
More than 6 million businesses run their financial lives through Moniepoint - and the primary way they interact with us every single day is through a POS device. Everything those devices are capable of, in terms of speed, reliability, and developer quality, flows from the engineering platform this role leads.
We are building a dedicated POS Application Platform function: the foundational Kotlin-based engineering layer that sits beneath every POS product at Moniepoint. Think of it as the operating system for our POS engineering organisation - the standards, frameworks, tooling, and architectural backbone that every POS engineer across the business builds on top of. It is a platform team in the truest sense, and the Head of Engineering for POS Application Platform is the technical owner of that layer.
We currently operate across five POS device types from multiple OEM manufacturers, all running on Android. The engineering challenges here span device governance, developer experience, platform reliability, foundational frameworks, and adoption across a distributed set of POS engineers working in separate product squads.
We have a UK entity live, a cross-border payments product in market, and a microfinance bank acquisition which just finalized in Kenya. The platform you build will become the foundation for tens of millions of businesses across multiple markets to accept payments, access financial services, and grow. Build and govern the four core platform pillars across the organisation: developer experience (tools, libraries, SDKs), platform reliability (observability, uptime, quality standards), foundational frameworks (architecture, coding standards, testing and release pipelines), and squad adoption (driving uptake of platform tooling across all embedded POS engineers).
Define and enforce engineering standards across all POS device types and OEM manufacturers, ensuring architectural consistency and quality across a heterogeneous device fleet.
Functionally lead POS engineers embedded across Payments, Onboarding, VAS, Savings, and Loans squads - setting the bar for engineering quality and providing the platform layer above all of them.
Own POS observability end-to-end: monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks that ensure platform health across all devices and squads.
Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, tooling standards, CI/CD pipelines, and developer productivity metrics across the POS engineering community.
A minimum of 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 6 years leading engineering teams through meaningful growth phases, ideally in multi-national or large VC-backed companies.
Direct, hands-on experience building software that runs on Point-of-Sale terminal devices. This means engineering on the device itself — the application layer — not server-side integrations with POS systems. Strong working knowledge of EMV standards (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) and experience navigating payment certification processes such as PCI DSS and P2PE. Deep Android engineering expertise in Kotlin and Java. The POS application layer at Moniepoint is Android-based and there are no exceptions to this requirement.
Proven experience building internal engineering platforms, shared libraries, developer tooling, or foundational frameworks used by other engineering teams — not just consumer-facing feature products.
Experience building or maturing platform engineering functions, including establishing engineering processes, tooling strategies, and cross-squad governance structures.
Demonstrated ability to scale engineering teams and build the organisational layer beneath you — leaders who can grow into and around the role you are hiring into.
Experience at a company processing high volumes of financial transactions in a regulated environment. Backend engineering experience in Java or Spring Boot is a strong plus given the breadth of the platform and the integration surface it sits on.
Experience working directly with OEM vendors on hardware specification and integration is a bonus.
Exposure to C or C++ is a plus — one of our device variants uses C.
Reason from first principles, make trade-offs explicit, and raise the bar on quality.
Reduce cognitive load and raise engineering quality.
Act autonomously within scope, remove friction, and escalate risks early.
Surface uncomfortable truths and risks early. Performance without integrity is unacceptable. Android (Kotlin, Java) - primary platform for all POS application development
Java, Spring Boot — backend services and integration layer
PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
Microservices architecture on AWS
Learning - We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
Compensation - You will receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, plus other benefits.
A preliminary phone call with one of our recruiters.
Technical Round focused on core technical strengths and depth in Android/Kotlin
Technical and Architectural Leadership - An interview with one Head of Engineering focused on leadership skills and attributes.
Please send us your CV or LinkedIn profile via our career website.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates! xehkeey
#LI-Remote
Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.