Principal Generalist Engineer
Moniepoint6 hours ago
Remote, PortugalStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build reliable, scalable, and observable production systems.
- Own problems end to end from problem framing and design through data, implementation, deployment, and operations.
- Work across application services, distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, and ML systems.
- Debug complex production issues and system or model failures across multiple layers.
- Improve performance, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Train, evaluate, iterate on, deploy, and monitor machine learning models and reproducible pipelines when ML is appropriate.
- Contribute to architecture, technical direction, documentation, and engineering quality.
Requirements
- Strong computer science fundamentals including data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems.
- Solid probability and statistics knowledge.
- Experience building production systems at scale.
- Ability to work across Go, Java, Python, Rust, and SQL.
- Understanding of system behavior under load and failure modes.
- Comfort with Linux, containers, and Kubernetes.
- Strong debugging skills and ability to reason using invariants and failure modes.
- Experience or knowledge in data systems, streaming systems, ML infrastructure, and performance optimization.
Benefits
- Learning and development environment with knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
- Salary, pension, health insurance, paid leave, and other benefits.
- Remote role, as indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
- People-first culture emphasizing well-being, inclusion, respect, and employee voice.
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About Moniepoint
Moniepoint builds an all-in-one financial platform for African businesses and consumers, offering merchant payments, POS devices, digital banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools. The company earns fees from payments and financial services and operates as a privately held firm. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in London, it is Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer and processes over $250 billion in digital payment value annually.