Software Engineer - R&D

Moniepoint is one of Africa’s fastest-growing fintech companies, recognized for its innovative financial ecosystem. The role involves designing and building production-grade systems while owning the entire process from problem identification to deployment and operations.

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
• Raise the engineering bar
• 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 + 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
• Data systems, streaming systems, ML infrastructure, performance optimization