Principal Generalist Engineer
Moniepoint6 hours ago
Remote, South AfricaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design and build reliable, scalable, observable production systems.
- Own problems end to end across design, data, implementation, deployment, and operations.
- Work across application services, distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, and ML systems.
- Debug complex production issues across multiple system layers.
- Improve performance, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Contribute to architecture and technical direction while writing maintainable code and documentation.
- Train, evaluate, iterate on, deploy, and monitor machine learning models and reproducible pipelines.
- Determine when ML is appropriate versus deterministic systems and debug system and model failures.
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.
- Comfort with Linux, containers, and Kubernetes.
- Strong debugging skills and ability to reason using invariants and failure modes.
- Knowledge of data systems, streaming systems, ML infrastructure, and performance optimization.
Benefits
- Attractive salary, pension, health insurance, paid leave, and other benefits.
- Learning and development environment with knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
- Remote work arrangement indicated by the #LI-Remote designation.
- Inclusive culture where employees' opinions and voices are valued.
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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.