Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

• Are you passionate about building event-driven systems?
• Do you have a strong grasp of Kotlin or Go?
• Do you enjoy finding solutions for significantly impactful challenges?

If the answers to the above questions are yes, then this role could be ideal for you!

What you will do

• Build greenfield mission-critical services and expand the reliability of existing ones
• Help to shape GRID's technological landscape together with experienced colleagues
• Participate in architectural discussions, providing feedback to coworkers and ensuring good practices
• Work closely together with product stakeholders to communicate progress and considerations effectively

Your skills will include (must have)

• Minimum of 3 years of commercial experience
• Deep knowledge of a strongly typed language (preferably Kotlin / Go)
  • Explicit (nullable) types
  • Strong, minimal contracts
  • Helpful abstractions and class hierarchies / compositions (introduced at an appropriate time)
• Ambition to build robust, high-quality mission-critical systems, leveraging the power of:
  • Automated testing
  • Automated monitoring and alerting
  • CI/CD infrastructure
• Know-how of good API design (preferably REST / GraphQL), paying attention to:
  • Documentation
  • Self-documenting naming and structures
  • Minimal and extendable contracts (while minimizing breaking changes)
• Experience with GraphQL/REST APIs, micro-service architecture and container / orchestration systems (preferably Docker / Kubernetes), while bearing in mind:
  • Complexity trade-offs
  • Fault-tolerance design
• Knowledge of JIRA, Agile and Scrum
• Good communication skills, especially when working with remote teams
• Good attention to detail
• Being able to work CET time zone

Nice to have

• Production experience with designing and maintaining GraphQL APIs.
• Knowledge of eSports and gaming.
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced software startup that has incredible potential
• A passion for software engineering while writing clean, well-tested code
• Enthusiasm for working in a Lean, fully Agile environment
• Comfortable using AI tooling where necessary (ex. open code, github copilot, claude code)
• Knowledge of modern AI workflows

What you can expect from GRID’s Engineering Team

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Organized: We strive for considered decisions, creating software that lasts. We document them in decision records, which any engineer in any team can drive