Senior Generalist Engineer — Production Systems

Moniepoint; South Africa; Remote; ZAR 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Pension

Health insurance

Learning & development

Tech talks

Job summary

Moniepoint is seeking a senior Generalist Engineer for its Research & Development team. You’ll own problems end to end, delivering complete production systems across software, distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, and ML where useful.

Strong first-principles thinking and the ability to navigate across boundaries are essential. We value engineers who reduce complexity, improve reliability and performance, and treat ML as one tool among many.

Qualifications

• Strong CS fundamentals (DSA, OS, networking, distributed systems).
• Solid probability and statistics.
• Experience building production systems at scale.

Responsibilities

• Design and build production-grade systems that are reliable, scalable, and observable.
• 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

Skills

CS fundamentals

Probability & stats

Distributed systems

Kubernetes

Go

Java

Python

Rust

SQL

Linux

System design

Tools

Docker

Job description

Moniepoint is seeking a senior Generalist Engineer for its Research & Development team. You’ll own problems end to end, delivering complete production systems across software, distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, and ML where useful.

Strong first-principles thinking and the ability to navigate across boundaries are essential. We value engineers who reduce complexity, improve reliability and performance, and treat ML as one tool among many.