Head of Engineering, Sales & Marketing Tools (Fintech)

Location: Remote, Spain

Company

hirify.global is an African all-in-one financial platform providing payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools for more than 20 million businesses and individuals.

What you will do

• Lead engineering for MonieCRM, an in-house workforce operations platform supporting a 50,000-person sales network.
• Modernise and re-architect legacy systems serving more than 20 million users.
• Own platforms for wallets, commission calculation and attribution, cashout, welfare funds, partner management, rewards, retention, and marketing automation.
• Improve reliability, performance, and financial correctness across high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems.
• Build and develop a high-performing engineering organisation with a strong bench of managers and senior engineers.
• Partner with product and commercial stakeholders to make sales and marketing operations more dependable.

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-level Java experience, with 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 sensitive 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

• Ownership of the platform behind the commercial engine of a major African digital bank.
• Autonomy and organisational backing for a significant platform modernisation mandate.
• Work on systems affecting millions of businesses and individuals across Africa and beyond.
• Leadership expectations emphasise customer obsession, craft, systemisation, urgency, ownership, candour, integrity, and low ego.

Hiring process

• 60-minute high-level system design interview with an Engineering Manager.
• 60-minute panel interview covering a technical deep dive, a previous project or system, 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.