Head of Engineering, Sales & Marketing Tools (Fintech)

Location: Remote, Poland

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

• Lead the engineering organisation responsible for MonieCRM, the in-house workforce operations platform for a 50,000-strong sales network.
• Modernise and re-architect legacy systems serving more than 20 million users.
• Build reliable, high-throughput distributed systems for sales operations, partner management, rewards, retention, and marketing technology.
• Ensure financial correctness across wallets, commissions, attribution, cashouts, and welfare funds.
• Develop engineering managers and senior engineers while building a high-performing organisation of 20 or more members.
• Partner with product and commercial stakeholders to improve platform reliability and enable faster business execution.

Requirements

• 10–15 years of overall software engineering experience, including at least 5 years leading engineering teams through growth phases.
• At least 5 years of hands-on, production-level Java experience, with proficiency in Spring Boot.
• At least 5 years managing managers and leading engineering organisations through other engineering leaders.
• Proven platform engineering experience with complex, high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems.
• Experience with legacy migrations and re-architecture at a 20M+ user scale.
• Experience managing and developing engineering teams of 20 or more members.

Nice to have

• Experience with financial correctness, including commissions, payouts, wallets, or ledgers.
• Fintech or payments industry experience.
• 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 significant autonomy and organisational support.
• Contribute to products impacting millions of businesses and individuals across Africa and beyond.
• Leadership expectations emphasise customer obsession, craft, systemisation, urgency, ownership, candour, and integrity.

Hiring process

• 60-minute high-level system design interview with an Engineering Manager.
• 60-minute panel interview covering technical experience, a previous system or project, and leadership attributes.
• 60-minute stakeholder management round followed by a 60-minute technical and culture-fit interview with the Co-founder and Group CTO.