Principal Generalist Engineer (Distributed Systems)

Location: Remote, Portugal

Company

hirify.global is an African financial platform providing payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools to businesses and individuals.

What you will do

• Design and build reliable, scalable, observable production systems.
• Own solutions end to end, from ambiguous problem definition and system design through implementation, deployment, and operations.
• Work across application services, distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, and ML systems.
• Debug complex production issues and improve performance, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Contribute to architecture, technical direction, maintainable code, documentation, and engineering standards.
• Train, evaluate, deploy, and monitor ML models and reproducible pipelines when ML is the appropriate solution.

Requirements

• Strong computer science fundamentals, including data structures and algorithms, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems.
• Solid probability and statistics knowledge, with experience building production systems at scale.
• Ability to work across Go, Java, Python, Rust, and SQL.
• Understanding of system behavior under load and failure, with strong debugging and first-principles reasoning skills.
• Experience with Linux, containers, Kubernetes, data systems, streaming systems, ML infrastructure, and performance optimization.

Culture & Benefits

• Ownership-focused environment that values simplicity, curiosity, robust design, and clear communication.
• Learning and development support, knowledge sharing, training, and internal technical talks.
• Salary, pension, health insurance, paid leave, and other benefits.
• Inclusive workplace focused on employee well-being and equal opportunity.

Hiring process

• Initial recruiter conversation.
• Take-home technical assessment followed by a discussion.
• System design interview and final technical and behavioral interview with an executive team member.