Head of Engineering, Rewards (Fintech)

Location: Remote, Spain

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.
• Expand 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 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 web and mobile experiences.

Requirements

• Direct-to-consumer product engineering experience at scale, including products used by large consumer audiences.
• Strong front-end and mobile engineering depth; a backend-only background is not suitable for this role.
• Hands-on experience with A/B testing, feature flagging, experimentation, and growth engineering.
• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years managing managers and leading engineering organisations through growth.
• Technical leadership experience with Java and Spring Boot backend environments.
• Experience building engineering organisations, hiring Engineering Managers, and collaborating with 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 as the CTO of the domain.
• Opportunity to define a rewards platform from an early stage and influence retention across approximately 23 million users.
• Leadership principles include customer obsession, craft, systemisation, urgency, ownership, candour, integrity, and no ego.
• Work with a mission-driven financial platform expanding access to financial services across emerging markets.

Hiring process

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