Head of Engineering, Rewards (Fintech)

Location: Remote, South Africa

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 flags, cohort analysis, and product measurement.
• Partner with Product, Growth, Sales, and Marketing to define initiatives, metrics, OKRs, and customer-facing experiences across web and mobile.

Requirements

• Direct-to-consumer product engineering experience at scale, with products used by large consumer audiences.
• Strong front-end and mobile engineering depth; a backend-only background is not sufficient.
• At least 10 years of software engineering experience, including at least 5 years leading engineering teams through growth phases.
• At least 5 years of experience managing managers and leading organisations through engineering leaders.
• Hands-on technical leadership experience and credibility with engineers.
• Experience with experimentation, A/B testing, feature flagging, measurement frameworks, and commercial stakeholder collaboration. Familiarity with Java and Spring Boot is required for credible backend leadership.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work from South Africa.
• 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 and engagement across approximately 23 million users.
• Mission-driven work expanding access to financial services across Africa.
• Leadership culture focused on customer obsession, craft, systemisation, urgency, ownership, candour, integrity, and low ego.

Hiring process

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