Backend Engineer (m/f/x)
<div class="show-more-less-html__markup show-more-less-html__markup--clamp-after-5 relative overflow-hidden"> <ul><li>Are you passionate about building event-driven systems?</li><li>Do you have a strong grasp of Kotlin or Go?</li><li>Do you enjoy finding solutions for significantly impactful challenges?<br/><br/></li></ul>If the answers to the above questions are yes, then this role could be ideal for you!<br/><br/>What you will do<br/><br/><ul><li>Build greenfield mission-critical services and expand the reliability of existing ones</li><li>Help to shape GRID's technological landscape together with experienced colleagues</li><li>Participate in architectural discussions, providing feedback to coworkers and ensuring good practices</li><li>Work closely together with product stakeholders to communicate progress and considerations effectively<br/><br/></li></ul>Your skills will include (must have)<br/><br/><ul><li>Minimum of 3 years of commercial experience</li><li>Deep knowledge of a strongly typed language (preferably Kotlin / Go)</li><ul><li>Explicit (nullable) types</li><li>Strong, minimal contracts</li><li>Helpful abstractions and class hierarchies / compositions (introduced at an appropriate time)</li></ul><li>Ambition to build robust, high-quality mission-critical systems, leveraging the power of:</li><ul><li>Automated testing</li><li>Automated monitoring and alerting</li><li>CI/CD infrastructure</li></ul><li>Know-how of good API design (preferably REST / GraphQL), paying attention to:</li><ul><li>Documentation</li><li>Self-documenting naming and structures</li><li>Minimal and extendable contracts (while minimizing breaking changes)</li></ul><li>Experience with GraphQL/REST APIs, micro-service architecture and container / orchestration systems (preferably Docker / Kubernetes), while bearing in mind:</li><ul><li>Complexity trade-offs</li><li>Fault-tolerance design</li></ul><li>Knowledge of JIRA, Agile and Scrum</li><li>Good communication skills, especially when working with remote teams</li><li>Good attention to detail</li><li>Being able to work CET time zone</li></ul>Nice to have<br/><br/><ul><li>Production experience with designing and maintaining GraphQL APIs.</li><li>Knowledge of eSports and gaming.</li><li>The ability to thrive in a fast-paced software startup that has incredible potential</li><li>A passion for software engineering while writing clean, well-tested code</li><li>Enthusiasm for working in a Lean, fully Agile environment</li><li>Comfortable using AI tooling where necessary (ex. open code, github copilot, claude code)</li><li>Knowledge of modern AI workflows<br/><br/></li></ul>What you can expect from GRID’s Engineering Team<br/><br/><ul><li>Impactful: With a robust CI/CD process, and a full suite of automated tests our engineers ship daily, allowing you to make impact on the product from day one with peace of mind</li><li>Agile & Inclusively: We’ve developed our own kanban-based way of working that is constantly being improved and adapted by the self-organizing product-engineering teams. Opinions and ideas are valued from all</li><li>Quality: Achieved by ensuring detailed stories and epics, high test coverage, a thorough code-review process, consciously taking on technical debt and an open culture of sharing opinions</li><li>Organized: We strive for considered decisions, creating software that lasts. We document them in decision records, which any engineer in any team can drive</li></ul> </div>