Principal Generalist Engineer

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. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, Moniepoint processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually through its subsidiaries.

• Strong CS fundamentals (Data Structures and Algorithms, Operating Systems, networking, distributed systems)
• Solid probability and statistics knowledge
• 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
• Experience with data systems, streaming systems, ML infrastructure, and performance optimization

• 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
• Raise the engineering bar

Machine Learning as Part of the Role:

• Frame problems correctly: when to use ML vs 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

Moniepoint is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and candidates. The position is remote and open to candidates located in Poland.