Platform Engineering Leader - Sales & Marketing Tools

Moniepoint Group; Portugal; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Moniepoint is seeking a senior head of engineering for the Portugal operations, owning Sales & Marketing Tools including MonieCRM. You will scale a multi-market platform powering millions of users, oversee a large engineering organization, and modernise legacy systems with a focus on reliability and financial correctness.

The role requires deep backend expertise, fintech domain experience is a plus, and the candidate will collaborate with product and business stakeholders to drive platform

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of overall software engineering experience, with at least 5 years leading engineering teams through growth.
• 5+ years of hands-on, production-level experience writing and shipping Java code as a practising engineer.
• At least 5 years of experience managing managers — leading an engineering organisation through other engineering leaders.
• Proven platform engineering experience at scale — building and running complex distributed systems.
• Navigated legacy migrations and re-architecture projects at 20M+ user scale.
• Strong backend engineering skills in high-throughput, data-intensive distributed systems, and proficiency in Java and Spring Boot.
• Managed and developed large engineering teams of 20 or more members.
• Experience building systems where financial correctness matters — commissions, payouts, wallets, ledgers or equivalent.
• A fintech or payments background is strongly preferred. CRM or SalesTech domain experience is nice to have and explicitly not required.
• Exposure to customer engagement or marketing automation platforms such as Braze is a plus, but not a requirement.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Leadership

Platform engineering

Distributed systems

Legacy migrations

Managing managers

Financial systems

Braze

CRM/SalesTech (not required)

Tools

Braze

Job description

Moniepoint is seeking a senior head of engineering for the Portugal operations, owning Sales & Marketing Tools including MonieCRM. You will scale a multi-market platform powering millions of users, oversee a large engineering organization, and modernise legacy systems with a focus on reliability and financial correctness.

The role requires deep backend expertise, fintech domain experience is a plus, and the candidate will collaborate with product and business stakeholders to drive platform