Principal Generalist Engineer

Moniepoint Group
Spain
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Communications, PR & CommunitySkills: ["First-principles thinking","Technical judgment","Debugging","Communication","Ownership"]

Own end-to-end delivery of production-grade systems for a Research & Development team, from ambiguous problem statements through design, implementation, deployment, and operations. Work across application services, distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, and use machine learning when it’s the right tool. Debug complex production issues across layers, make first-principles trade-offs, and improve reliability, performance, latency, and cost efficiency.

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Moniepoint Group
Moniepoint Group
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Principal Generalist Engineer

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Job Summary

Own end-to-end delivery of production-grade systems for a Research & Development team, from ambiguous problem statements through design, implementation, deployment, and operations. Work across application services, distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, and use machine learning when it’s the right tool. Debug complex production issues across layers, make first-principles trade-offs, and improve reliability, performance, latency, and cost efficiency.
Location: Spain
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Communications, PR & Community
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design and build production-grade systems that are reliable, scalable, and observable.
  • •Own systems end-to-end across problem, 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.
  • •Improve performance, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency while contributing to architecture and technical direction.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsurancePensionPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •Strong computer science fundamentals including DSA, OS, networking, and distributed systems.
  • •Solid probability and statistics.
  • •Experience building production systems at scale and understanding system behavior under load and failure.
  • •Ability to work across languages including Go, Java, Python, Rust, and SQL.
  • •Comfort with Linux, containers, and Kubernetes, plus strong debugging skills.
Skills:First-principles thinkingTechnical judgmentDebuggingCommunicationOwnership
Languages:English
Tech Stack:GoJavaPythonRustSQLLinuxContainersKubernetesMachine learningData pipelinesDistributed systemsStreaming systemsML infrastructure

Company Brief

Moniepoint Group
Provides digital payments, merchant services, agent banking, card issuance, and business banking solutions across Nigeria and other African markets, serving SMEs, merchants, and financial institutions with technology-first transaction and banking infrastructure.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Lagos, Nigeria
Founded: 2015
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