Head of Engineering, Supply Chain

About this job

<p><strong>Who We Are</strong></p> <p>Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month. </p> <p>As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions.

Key details

• Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually.</p> <p><strong>About The Role</strong></p> <p>POS Hardware and Device Platforms owns the software behind the physical side of Moniepoint's business: the systems that track, move, maintain and account for millions of POS terminals in the field.
• That covers inventory and warehouse management, logistics and distribution, repair and maintenance workflows, and the operational tooling the business runs on day to day.
• It is a backend and distributed systems challenge at real scale - making operational data about millions of physical devices visible, trustworthy and consistent across every market we operate in.
• It is not a hardware engineering role.</p> <p>The Head of Engineering, POS Supply Chain, oversees that software estate and is vital as Moniepoint expands internationally and scales device operations globally.
• The position involves leading the technical strategy for the domain and managing a large engineering organisation in a remote, distributed environment.
• As Head of Engineering, Supply Chain, your responsibilities will include:</p> <ul> <li>Owning the technical strategy and architecture for inventory and logistics tools and repair management software.</li> <li>Leading an engineering organisation of approximately 25 engineers, including managers, QA, SRE and Data Engineering.</li> <li>Driving platformisation of inventory and supply chain systems so operational data is visible, trustworthy and consistent across millions of terminals.</li> <li>Bridging the gap between operational practice and software systems by building operationally disciplined solutions.</li> <li>Defining architecture standards, engineering processes and quality metrics across squads to ensure reliability and data integrity.</li> <li>Collaborating with business and operational stakeholders to translate operational requirements into engineering solutions.</li> <li>Hiring, mentoring and developing engineering managers and senior engineers to support team growth up to 30+ members.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who You Are</strong></p> <ul> <li>10–15 years of overall software engineering experience, with at least 5 years leading engineering teams through growth phases.</li> <li>5+ years of hands-on, production-level experience writing and shipping Java code as a practising engineer.
• This means years spent writing Java yourself, not years spent overseeing teams who write it.</li> <li>At least 5 years of experience managing managers - leading an engineering organisation through other engineering leaders, rather than running a single team.</li> <li>Deep hands-on experience in supply chain, inventory, warehouse or logistics software at scale.</li> <li>Fintech or regulated-industry experience, with an understanding of the operational stakes of device management in a payments environment.</li> <li>Strong backend engineering skills for data-intensive, distributed, operational systems.</li> <li>Proven system design ability at large scale, managing hundreds of thousands of devices or more.</li> <li>Experience managing and developing large engineering teams of 20 or more members.</li> <li>Excellent stakeholder management, translating complex technical concepts for non-technical leaders.</li> <li>A product-minded approach to solving operational problems with engineering solutions.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Cultural Alignment</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <ul> <li>Customer Obsession: Build deep empathy for users.
• Solve problems intuitively, and fix root causes, not just tickets.</li> <li>Craft: Master the fundamentals.
• Reason from first principles, make trade-offs explicit, and raise the bar on quality.</li> <li>Systemisation: Turn repeating decisions into scalable mechanisms.
• Reduce cognitive load and raise engineering quality.</li> <li>Urgency: Move with disciplined speed.
• Act autonomously within scope, remove friction, and escalate risks early.</li> <li>Ownership: Treat the platform as your own.
• Take initiative across boundaries and follow through without reminders.</li> <li>No Ego: Put the mission first.
• Share credit, welcome debate, and never protect status over team outcomes.</li> <li>Candour: Surface uncomfortable truths and risks early.
• Intelligent failure is welcome; concealment is not.</li> <li>Integrity: Stay truthful and ethically consistent.
• Refuse toxic behavior.
• Performance without integrity is unacceptable.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What Success Looks Like In The Role</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Scalable inventory and logistics systems delivered, supporting millions of devices across multiple countries.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">A high-performing, motivated engineering team aligned with company growth.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Operational data visibility and trust established across multiple global markets.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Robust architecture standards enabling reliability and data integrity.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Effective collaboration with business and operational teams to meet rapid expansion needs.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we can offer you</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Lead engineering for one of Africa's largest POS networks and directly influence our global expansion.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Work in a fast-paced, innovative environment at the intersection of fintech and hardware operations.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">Be part of a mission-driven company impacting millions of businesses and individuals across Africa and beyond.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What to expect in the hiring process</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">A preliminary phone call with the recruiter.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">60 minute High level System Design round with one of our Engineering Managers.</li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">60 minute Panel Interview with 2 of our Head of Engineering leaders, 30 minutes focused on a technical deep dive into your CV and into a project/system you built in the past. 30 minutes will be focused on testing for leadership attributes. </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">60 minute Stakeholder Management Round with one of our Product Heads/VPs, focused on your stakeholder management, collaboration skills with product/business. </li> <li style="font-weight: 400;">60 minute Technical round and Culture fit interview with our Co-founder & Group CTO (the hiring manager).</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer.
• We celebrate diversity an