Principal Generalist Engineer
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Principal Generalist Engineer building reliable software, distributed systems, infrastructure, data, and ML systems. Supporting Moniepoint’s all-in-one African financial platform serving businesses and individuals.
Responsibilities:
- Design and build reliable, scalable, observable production-grade systems
- Own systems end-to-end from problem definition through design, data, implementation, deployment, and operations
- Work across application services, distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, and ML systems
- Debug complex production issues across multiple layers
- Make engineering trade-offs grounded in first principles
- Improve performance, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency
- Contribute to architecture and technical direction
- Write maintainable code and documentation
- Raise the engineering bar
- Determine when to use ML versus deterministic systems
- Work with data end-to-end
- Train, evaluate, and iterate on models
- Build reproducible pipelines
- Deploy models and monitor performance, drift, and cost
- Debug system and model failures
Requirements:
- Strong CS fundamentals (DSA, OS, networking, distributed systems)
- Solid probability and statistics
- Experience building production systems at scale
- Ability to move across languages (Go, Java, Python, Rust, SQL)
- Understanding of system behavior under load and failure
- Comfort with Linux, containers, and Kubernetes
- Strong debugging skills
- Ability to reason using invariants and failure modes
- Knowledge of data systems, streaming systems, ML infrastructure, and performance optimization
Benefits:
- People-first culture prioritizing employee well-being
- Inclusive environment where all opinions and voices are valued
- Learning and development-focused environment
- Knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks
- Attractive salary
- Pension
- Health insurance
- Paid leave
- Other benefits
















