Head of Engineering, Rewards (Fintech)

Location: Remote, Kenya

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 and roadmap for 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 and scale the engineering organisation from nine engineers toward at least three product units and more than 25 people.
• Establish experimentation practices including A/B testing, cohort analysis, feature flagging and product measurement.
• Partner with Growth, Sales, Marketing and Product to define initiatives, metrics and OKRs, while owning engineering quality and delivery.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years leading engineering teams through growth phases.
• At least 5 years of experience managing engineering managers.
• Experience building and shipping direct-to-consumer products for large audiences.
• Strong front-end and mobile engineering experience, with meaningful hands-on technical involvement.
• Hands-on experience with A/B testing, feature flagging and measurement frameworks.
• Ability to lead backend engineers credibly in a Java and Spring Boot environment.

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 build a rewards platform from an early stage and shape its organisation.
• Direct impact on retention and engagement for approximately 23 million users.
• Mission focused on expanding access to financial services across Africa.
• Leadership culture built around customer obsession, craft, systemisation, urgency, ownership, candour and integrity.

Hiring process

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