Head of Engineering, Sales & Marketing Tools (Fintech)

Location: Remote, Portugal

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead the engineering organisation responsible for MonieCRM, the in-house workforce operations platform for a 50,000-person sales network.
• Modernise and re-architect rapidly grown legacy systems serving more than 20 million users.
• Build and operate high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems across sales, partner management, rewards, retention, and marketing technology.
• Ensure accurate commission calculation, attribution, wallet operations, cashouts, and welfare-fund payments at network scale.
• Develop dependable marketing automation capabilities, including engineering and customisation of Braze.
• Build a strong engineering organisation with experienced 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-level Java experience and strong proficiency with Spring Boot.
• At least 5 years managing managers and experience leading engineering organisations of 20 or more people.
• Proven platform engineering experience with complex distributed systems, legacy migrations, and re-architecture at 20M+ user scale.
• Strong backend engineering skills in high-throughput, data-intensive systems.
• 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

• Own the platform behind the commercial engine of a major African digital bank.
• Work on a significant platform modernisation programme with autonomy and organisational support.
• Contribute to products serving millions of businesses and individuals across Africa and beyond.
• Operate according to principles including 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 a technical project deep dive and leadership attributes.
• Stakeholder management round, followed by a technical and culture-fit interview with the Co-founder and Group CTO.