Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway (Fintech)

Location: Remote, Lagos, Nigeria

Company

hirify.global is an African financial platform providing payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools to businesses and individuals.

What you will do

• Own the technical strategy, architecture, and roadmap for the Monnify payment gateway.
• Lead multiple engineering teams through engineering managers and build organisational capability.
• Own developer experience across APIs, SDKs, documentation, and integration workflows.
• Drive platform evolution toward multi-currency and international multi-market support.
• Ensure reliability, scalability, security, and compliance across Payment In, Payout, Commerce Tools, and developer-facing features.
• Partner with product, commercial, and operations teams and develop engineering managers and senior engineers.

Requirements

• More than 10 years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years in engineering leadership.
• At least 5 years of hands-on, production-level Java development experience.
• At least 5 years of experience managing managers and leading multiple engineering teams.
• Experience with payments, fintech, or financial services products, including payment flows and compliance.
• Strong knowledge of API-first products, developer platforms, API integration, and high-throughput distributed transactional systems.
• Experience with Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, AWS, and microservices architecture.

Nice to have

• Experience building or operating a payment gateway or multi-currency payment platform.

Culture & Benefits

• Ownership of payment infrastructure used by thousands of businesses and developers.
• Work in a technically demanding environment processing hundreds of billions of dollars in annual transaction volume.
• Opportunity to contribute to expanding access to financial services in high-growth markets.
• Mission-driven and inclusive working environment.

Hiring process

• Preliminary recruiter phone call.
• Panel interview with two Vice Presidents of Engineering, followed by a technical assessment with the Group CTO or Co-founder.
• Behavioural and technical interview with the Group CEO or Founder, followed by a technical workshop with the Group CTO or Co-founder.