Head of Engineering, Sales & Marketing Tools (Fintech)

Location: Remote, South Africa

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 supporting a 50,000-person sales network.
• Own platform engineering across onboarding, network management, sales pipelines, portfolios, performance, compensation, and field support.
• Modernise and re-architect legacy systems serving more than 20 million users.
• Ensure accurate wallet, commission, attribution, cashout, and welfare-fund operations at network scale.
• Oversee partner management, rewards and retention systems, and the Braze-based marketing technology stack.
• Build a high-performing engineering organisation with a strong bench of managers and senior engineers.

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 Java experience, with proficiency in Java and Spring Boot.
• At least 5 years managing managers and experience leading engineering organisations through other engineering leaders.
• Proven platform engineering experience with complex, distributed, high-throughput, data-intensive systems.
• Experience with legacy migrations and re-architecture at 20M+ user scale, plus management of engineering teams of 20 or more.
• Experience with systems where financial correctness matters, such as commissions, payouts, wallets, or ledgers.

Nice to have

• Fintech or payments industry experience.
• CRM or SalesTech experience.
• Exposure to customer engagement or marketing automation platforms such as Braze.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work from South Africa.
• Ownership of the platform behind a major African digital banking and commercial operation.
• Autonomy and organisational backing for a large-scale platform modernisation mandate.
• Work on products used by millions of businesses and individuals across Africa and beyond.
• Leadership expectations include 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 depth, leadership attributes, and a past project or system.
• 60-minute stakeholder management round, followed by a 60-minute technical and culture interview with the Co-founder and Group CTO.