Head of Engineering, Rewards (Fintech)

Location: Remote, Portugal; the role also states that the hire will join in 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.
• 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 at least three product units and more than 25 people.
• Establish experimentation practices using A/B testing, feature measurement, and cohort analysis.
• Partner with Product, Growth, Sales, and Marketing on customer-facing mobile and web experiences, metrics, and OKRs.

Requirements

• Experience building and shipping direct-to-consumer products used by large audiences.
• Strong front-end and mobile engineering depth, with hands-on technical leadership.
• At least 10 years of software engineering experience and at least 5 years managing managers and leading engineering organisations through growth.
• Experience with A/B testing, feature flagging, experimentation, and measurement frameworks.
• Ability to lead backend engineers credibly in a Java and Spring Boot environment.
• Experience hiring and developing 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

• 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.
• Leadership model with functional reporting to the Group CTO and a delivery relationship with the Rewards Product leader.
• Values include customer obsession, craft, systemisation, urgency, ownership, candour, no ego, and integrity.

Hiring process

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