Head of Engineering, Rewards (Fintech)

Location: Remote, Nigeria

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

• Own the technical strategy, architecture, roadmap, delivery, and engineering health of the Rewards Platform.
• Improve the performance, reliability, and depth of the existing cashback product.
• Evolve cashback into a rewards, retention, engagement, and personalisation platform for business customers, consumers, and sales agents.
• Build the engineering organisation from nine engineers to multiple product units with more than 25 people, including hiring and developing Engineering Managers.
• Establish experimentation practices based on A/B testing, feature flags, cohort analysis, and measurable customer outcomes.
• Partner with Product, Growth, Sales, and Marketing on acquisition, retention, metrics, OKRs, and customer-facing experiences across mobile and web.

Requirements

• Scaled direct-to-consumer product engineering experience with products used by large consumer audiences.
• Strong front-end and mobile engineering depth, with experience leading or building consumer-facing web and mobile products.
• Hands-on experience with A/B testing, feature flagging, experimentation, and measurement frameworks.
• At least 10 years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years managing managers and leading engineering teams through growth.
• Technical leadership experience with Java and Spring Boot environments, plus the ability to lead backend engineers credibly.
• Experience building engineering organisations, hiring Engineering Managers, and collaborating with commercial stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience in rewards, loyalty, gamification, personalisation, or growth platforms.
• Fintech or payments experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full autonomy over engineering strategy, architecture, hiring, operating cadence, and roadmap trade-offs.
• Opportunity to define a rewards platform from an early stage and influence retention across approximately 23 million users.
• Mission-driven work expanding access to financial services across Africa.
• Leadership expectations include customer obsession, craft, systemisation, urgency, ownership, candour, no ego, and integrity.

Hiring process

• High-level system design interview with an Engineering Manager.
• Panel interview covering technical depth and leadership attributes.
• Stakeholder management interview focused on product and business collaboration, followed by a technical and culture-fit interview with the Co-founder and Group CTO.