Principal Generalist Engineer

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Responsibilities

• ▹Design and build production-grade systems that are reliable, scalable, and observable
• ▹Own systems end-to-end: problem, design, data, implementation, deployment, 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
• ▹Frame problems correctly: when to use ML vs deterministic systems
• ▹Train, evaluate, and iterate on models; build reproducible pipelines; deploy and monitor models

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

Nice to have

• ▹Experience with data systems, streaming systems, ML infrastructure, and performance optimization

Soft skills

About the company

Moniepoint Inc. is Africa's all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month. It is Nigeria's largest merchant acquirer, processing over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually through its subsidiaries.