Principal Generalist Engineer (ML)

Location: Remote, Poland

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, and observable production-grade systems.
• Own the full lifecycle from ambiguous problem statements through design, data, implementation, deployment, and operations.
• Work across application services, distributed systems, infrastructure, data pipelines, and ML systems.
• Debug complex production issues across multiple system layers.
• Improve performance, latency, reliability, and cost efficiency while contributing to architecture and technical direction.
• Train, evaluate, deploy, and monitor ML models and build reproducible pipelines when ML is appropriate.

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 ability to reason using invariants and failure modes.

Culture & Benefits

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

Hiring process

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