Head of Engineering, Sales & Marketing Tools (Java)

Location: Remote, Nigeria

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead engineering for MonieCRM, an in-house workforce operations platform serving a 50,000-strong sales network.
• Modernise and re-architect legacy systems supporting more than 20 million users.
• Build and operate high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems for sales, partner, rewards, and marketing operations.
• Ensure accurate commission calculation, attribution, wallet, cashout, and welfare-fund processing.
• Scale and improve the reliability of the sales and marketing platform across multiple markets.
• Develop a high-performing engineering organisation with a strong bench of managers and senior engineers.

Requirements

• 10–15 years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years leading engineering teams through growth phases.
• At least 5 years of hands-on production Java experience and strong proficiency in Java and Spring Boot.
• At least 5 years managing managers and leading engineering organisations through other engineering leaders.
• Proven platform engineering experience with complex distributed systems, legacy migrations, and re-architecture at 20M+ user scale.
• Experience managing and developing engineering teams of 20 or more members.
• Experience with financially critical systems such as commissions, payouts, wallets, or ledgers is advantageous; fintech or payments experience is strongly preferred.

Nice to have

• CRM or SalesTech experience.
• Experience with customer engagement or marketing automation platforms such as Braze.

Culture & Benefits

• Own the platform behind the commercial engine of a major African digital bank.
• Work on a platform modernisation mandate with autonomy and organisational backing.
• Contribute to products used by millions of businesses and individuals across Africa and beyond.
• Operate in a culture emphasising customer obsession, craft, systemisation, urgency, ownership, candour, and integrity.

Hiring process

• 60-minute high-level system design interview with an Engineering Manager.
• Panel interview with two Heads of Engineering covering technical depth and leadership attributes.
• Stakeholder management round, followed by a technical and culture-fit interview with the Co-founder and Group CTO.