Head of Engineering, Global Payment Gateway

Moniepoint Group; Poland; Remote; PLN 400,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Moniepoint Inc. is seeking a Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway to lead the Poland engineering team. You will set the technical direction for Monnify, ensuring reliability, security and scalable multi-currency payments while guiding managers and senior engineers.

The role focuses on architecture, developer experience, and cross-functional collaboration with product and operations to align technical investments with business goals. This position is based in Warsaw, Poland.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 5 years in engineering leadership roles.
• 5+ years of hands-on Java coding experience as a practising engineer.
• At least 5 years of experience managing managers and leading an engineering organization.
• Experience in payments/fintech or financial services products with understanding of payment flows and compliance.
• Deep knowledge of API-first products, developer platforms and API integration.
• Proven leadership of multiple teams via managers in a scaling organization.
• Strong backend engineering skills in high-throughput, distributed transactional systems.
• Experience building or operating a payment gateway or multi-currency platform is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the full technical strategy, architecture and roadmap for the Monnify platform across capability areas.
• Lead multiple engineering teams through managers, setting quality standards and building organizational capability.
• Own developer experience end-to-end, including APIs, documentation and integration ease.
• Drive platform evolution towards multi-currency and international scalability.
• Ensure platform reliability, scalability and security within a regulated environment.
• Partner with product, commercial and operations teams to align technical investments with business goals.
• Hire, mentor and develop engineering managers and senior engineers to support growth.

Skills

Java

Leadership

API design

Payments knowledge

Distributed systems

Security

Mentoring

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

DynamoDB

AWS

Job description

Moniepoint Inc. is seeking a Head of Engineering, Payment Gateway to lead the Poland engineering team. You will set the technical direction for Monnify, ensuring reliability, security and scalable multi-currency payments while guiding managers and senior engineers.

The role focuses on architecture, developer experience, and cross-functional collaboration with product and operations to align technical investments with business goals. This position is based in Warsaw, Poland.