Moniepoint - Head of Engineering, Field Verification

• You have built things yourself, and grew into leadership from there. We are explicit about this: we are not looking for someone who moved into management early and has led from a distance since. We want an engineer who became a leader. • You are capable across disciplines. Backend, web and mobile. This platform spans all three and you will need credibility in each — a specialist in one layer will struggle here. • You have built platforms, not just products. Systems used by several distinct groups of users and internal business units, with the flexibility to serve requirements you did not anticipate. • You are a problem solver first. We would rather have someone adaptable than someone with the exact domain experience. Having built across different industries — fintech, e-commerce, logistics or otherwise — is a positive signal, not a scattered CV. • You have 10+ years of overall software engineering experience, with substantial hands-on production engineering and strong backend depth. Our backend environment is Java and Spring Boot. • You have at least 5 years of engineering leadership, including managing Engineering Managers. • You collaborate well with product and business stakeholders, and can translate operational requirements into engineering solutions. • Experience working with location and geospatial data is a strong plus, including map integrations. • Experience with route, trip or delivery optimisation is a strong plus. • Experience building for compliance — where data must be structured to evidence what was done and when — is a strong plus. • Experience with identity, KYC or verification platforms is a plus. None of these four are requirements. • Cultural Alignment • Cultural Alignment • As well, we assess every candidate across eight dimensions that define how great leaders operate at Moniepoint. We look for evidence of all eight throughout the process, not just in a single conversation. • Customer Obsession: Build deep empathy for users. Solve problems intuitively, and fix root causes, not just tickets. • Craft: Master the fundamentals. Reason from first principles, make trade-offs explicit, and raise the bar on quality. • Systemisation: Turn repeating decisions into scalable mechanisms. Reduce cognitive load and raise engineering quality. • Urgency: Move with disciplined speed. Act autonomously within scope, remove friction, and escalate risks early. • Ownership: Treat the platform as your own. Take initiative across boundaries and follow through without reminders. • No Ego: Put the mission first. Share credit, welcome debate, and never protect status over team outcomes. • Candour: Surface uncomfortable truths and risks early. Intelligent failure is welcome; concealment is not. • Integrity: Stay truthful and ethically consistent. Refuse toxic behavior. Performance without integrity is unacceptable. • What Success Looks Like • The domain has clear technical ownership and direction for the first time. • The team out of keep-the-lights-on mode and delivering against a prioritised roadmap. • Measurable improvement in field officer efficiency — more verifications per trip, lower cost per verification. • A native mobile experience shipped for field officers. • Verification data that stands up to compliance scrutiny across every business unit the platform serves. • The platform ready to support a new market. • A team grown beyond its current size, with a strong bench of engineers and managers.