Head of Engineering, Rewards (Fintech)

Location: Remote, London, United Kingdom

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

• 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 at least three product units and more than 25 people, including hiring and developing Engineering Managers.
• Establish experimentation practices covering A/B testing, cohort analysis, feature measurement, and customer behaviour analysis.
• Partner with Growth, Sales, Marketing, and Product to define initiatives, metrics, OKRs, and a multi-geography platform roadmap.

Requirements

• Experience building and shipping direct-to-consumer products at scale.
• Strong front-end and mobile engineering depth, with experience leading consumer-facing web and mobile products.
• Hands-on experience with A/B testing, feature flagging, and measurement frameworks.
• At least 10 years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years managing managers and leading engineering teams through growth.
• Hands-on technical leadership and the ability to lead backend engineers working with Java and Spring Boot.
• Experience building engineering organisations, hiring Engineering Managers, and collaborating with product, sales, marketing, and growth stakeholders.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomy as the CTO of the Rewards domain, including ownership of 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.
• Leadership culture centred on customer obsession, craft, systemisation, urgency, ownership, candour, integrity, and low ego.
• Mission-driven work expanding access to financial services for businesses and individuals.

Hiring process

• 60-minute high-level system design interview with an Engineering Manager.
• Panel interview with two Heads of Engineering, including a technical deep dive and leadership assessment.
• Stakeholder management interview followed by a technical and culture-fit interview with the Co-founder and Group CTO.