Head of Engineering, Rewards (Fintech)

Location: Remote, Poland

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 toward multiple product units and a team of more than 25 people.
• Establish experimentation practices including A/B testing, cohort analysis, feature measurement, and rapid learning cycles.
• Partner with Growth, Sales, Marketing, and Product to translate acquisition and retention goals into customer-facing mobile and web experiences.

Requirements

• Direct-to-consumer product engineering experience at scale, with products used by large consumer audiences.
• Strong front-end and mobile engineering depth, alongside credible technical leadership across backend engineering.
• Experience with A/B testing, feature flags, experimentation, and measurement frameworks.
• At least 10 years of software engineering experience and at least 5 years managing managers and leading engineering teams through growth.
• Comfort leading teams working with Java and Spring Boot, plus experience hiring and developing Engineering Managers.
• Strong collaboration skills with product, growth, marketing, sales, and other commercial stakeholders.

Nice to have

• Experience with 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 and engineering organisation from an early stage.
• Direct impact on retention and engagement across approximately 23 million users.
• Leadership culture focused on customer obsession, craft, systemisation, urgency, ownership, candour, and integrity.

Hiring process

• High-level system design interview with an Engineering Manager.
• Panel interview covering technical experience, a previous project or system, and leadership attributes.
• Stakeholder management interview followed by a technical and culture-fit interview with the Co-founder and Group CTO.