Principal Generalist Engineer

Moniepoint · Remote, Portugal · Remote · Full Time

• Posted 1 October 2026
• Closes 31 October 2026
• Data & Tech

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About the role

Moniepoint is seeking a Principal Generalist Engineer to lead end-to-end development of production systems within their R&D team. This principal-level position requires deep expertise in distributed systems, infrastructure, and pragmatic machine learning integration. Candidates must be polyglot programmers skilled in debugging, system architecture, and tools like Kubernetes.

Skills they are looking for

• Distributed Systems
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• Python
• Go
• Machine Learning
• System Architecture
• SQL

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