Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform at Moniepoint

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• Own the technical strategy and architecture for the POS Application Platform, acting as the domain CTO for everything that runs on our POS devices. • Define and enforce engineering standards across all POS device types and OEM manufacturers, ensuring architectural consistency and quality across a heterogeneous device fleet. • Functionally lead POS engineers embedded across Payments, Onboarding, VAS, Savings, and Loans squads – setting the bar for engineering quality and providing the platform layer above all of them. • Own POS observability end-to-end: monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks that ensure platform health across all devices and squads. • Drive the architecture for how Moniepoint supports multiple POS device types, including defining how new devices are onboarded, governed, and integrated with the platform. • Collaborate with OEM partners and the POS hardware team when new device types are introduced, ensuring the application layer is ready to support them from day one. • Build and scale the POS platform team, including hiring, mentoring, and structuring for growth as the platform expands internationally. • Translate platform decisions into business impact, working closely with Product, Payments, and Business leadership across markets. • Establish and continuously improve engineering processes, tooling standards, CI/CD pipelines, and developer productivity metrics across the POS engineering community. • A minimum of 10 years of hands-on software engineering experience, with at least 6 years leading engineering teams through meaningful growth phases, ideally in multi-national or large VC-backed companies. • Direct, hands-on experience building software that runs on Point-of-Sale terminal devices. This means engineering on the device itself — the application layer — not server-side integrations with POS systems. This is a non-negotiable requirement and candidates without it will not be considered. • Strong working knowledge of EMV standards (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) and experience navigating payment certification processes such as PCI DSS and P2PE. Candidates without this will not be considered. • Deep Android engineering expertise in Kotlin and Java. The POS application layer at Moniepoint is Android-based and there are no exceptions to this requirement. • Proven experience building internal engineering platforms, shared libraries, developer tooling, or foundational frameworks used by other engineering teams — not just consumer-facing feature products. • Experience governing or architecting across multiple POS device types from different hardware manufacturers, with an understanding of how OEM integrations and device management work at scale.