Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential fintech organization operating at significant scale across multiple markets. They process hundreds of billions in digital payment transaction value annually and serve millions of businesses through point-of-sale infrastructure. We're searching for a Head of Engineering, POS Application Platform to join their India-based engineering team and own the foundational platform layer that powers their entire POS engineering organization.

This is a platform engineering leadership role in the truest sense. You'll build and govern the Kotlin-based engineering layer that sits beneath every POS product—the standards, frameworks, tooling, and architectural backbone that every POS engineer across the business builds upon. You'll operate across multiple POS device types from various OEM manufacturers, all running on Android, while establishing the developer experience, platform reliability, and foundational frameworks that enable engineers in distributed product squads.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy and architecture for the POS Application Platform, acting as the domain technical leader for everything running on POS devices
• Build and govern four core platform pillars: developer experience (tools, libraries, SDKs), platform reliability (observability, uptime, quality standards), foundational frameworks (architecture, coding standards, testing/release pipelines), and squad adoption
• Define and enforce engineering standards across all POS device types and OEM manufacturers, ensuring architectural consistency across a heterogeneous device fleet
• Functionally lead POS engineers embedded across Payments, Onboarding, Value-Added Services, Savings, and Loans squads
• Own POS observability end-to-end: monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks ensuring platform health across all devices and squads
• Drive architecture for supporting multiple POS device types, including defining how new devices are onboarded, governed, and integrated
• Collaborate with OEM partners and hardware teams when new device types are introduced
• Build and scale the POS platform team through hiring, mentoring, and structuring for international growth
• Translate platform decisions into business impact, working with Product, Payments, and Business leadership across markets
• Establish and improve engineering processes, tooling standards, CI/CD pipelines, and developer productivity metrics

What We're Looking For

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum 10 years 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—engineering on the device itself (the application layer), not server-side integrations. This is non-negotiable
• Strong working knowledge of EMV standards (Europay, Mastercard, Visa) and experience navigating payment certification processes such as PCI DSS and P2PE. Non-negotiable
• Deep Android engineering expertise in Kotlin and Java—the platform is Android-based with no exceptions to this requirement
• Proven experience building internal engineering platforms, shared libraries, developer tooling, or foundational frameworks used by other engineering teams
• Experience governing or architecting across multiple POS device types from different hardware manufacturers, understanding OEM integrations and device management at scale
• Experience building or maturing platform engineering functions, including establishing engineering processes, tooling strategies, and cross-squad governance structures
• Demonstrated ability to scale engineering teams and build organizational layers—developing leaders who can grow into expanding roles
• Experience at a company processing high volumes of financial transactions in a regulated environment; fintech background strongly preferred

Strong Advantages:

• Familiarity with terminal management systems and device observability tooling
• Backend engineering experience in Java or Spring Boot
• Experience working directly with OEM vendors on hardware specification and integration
• Exposure to C or C++

Technologies You'll Work With:

• Android (Kotlin, Java) - primary platform
• EMV payment standards and PCI/P2PE certification frameworks
• Multiple POS device types and OEM manufacturers
• Terminal management systems and device observability tooling
• Java, Spring Boot for backend services
• Docker and Kubernetes
• PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch
• Microservices architecture on AWS

How We Work With You

As a specialist recruiting firm, Get A Job.ai connects exceptional engineering talent with high-growth opportunities. Here's our process:

• You apply directly through the Get A Job.ai platform
• Our recruiting team conducts an initial screening to understand your background and alignment with the role
• We submit qualified candidates to our client and coordinate the interview process
• Please do not contact the client organization directly—all communication flows through our talent team

Interview Process (5 Stages):

• Stage 1: Preliminary phone call with recruiter
• Stage 2: Technical round focused on Android/Kotlin expertise
• Stage 3: System design assessment with emphasis on POS, mobile platform architecture, and payment systems
• Stage 4: Technical and architectural leadership interview
• Stage 5: Executive interview assessing first-principles thinking, problem-solving, and cultural alignment

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience and qualifications. Our client offers competitive salary, health insurance, annual bonus, pension, and additional benefits.

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