Principal Generalist Engineer

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Principal Generalist Engineer building reliable software, distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, and ML systems. Supporting Moniepoint’s financial platform serving African businesses and individuals.

Responsibilities:

  • Design and build production-grade systems that are reliable, scalable, and observable
  • 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
  • Frame 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, Kubernetes
  • Strong debugging skills
  • 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
  • Learning and development-focused environment
  • Knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks
  • People-first culture prioritizing employee well-being
  • Inclusive environment where opinions and voices are valued