Principal Generalist Engineer (ML)

Location: Remote, South Africa

Company

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

What you will do

• Design and build reliable, scalable, observable production systems.
• Own problems end to end, from requirements and system design through implementation, deployment, and operations.
• Work across application services, distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, and machine learning systems.
• Debug complex production issues and improve performance, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Contribute to architecture, technical direction, maintainable code, 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.
• Experience building production systems at scale and understanding system behavior under load and failure.
• Ability to work across Go, Java, Python, Rust, and SQL.
• Comfort with Linux, containers, Kubernetes, data systems, streaming systems, and ML infrastructure.
• Strong debugging skills and the ability to reason using invariants and failure modes.

Culture & Benefits

• People-first environment focused on well-being, respect, inclusion, and open communication.
• Learning and development support, knowledge sharing, training, and internal technical talks.
• Salary, pension, health insurance, paid leave, and other benefits.

Hiring process

• Initial recruiter conversation about background, goals, and the role.
• Take-home technical assessment followed by a discussion.
• System design interview and final technical and behavioural interview with an executive team member.