Backend Engineer

Backend Engineer (m/f/x)
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Are you passionate about building event-driven systems?
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Do you have a strong grasp of Kotlin or Go?
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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
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Build greenfield mission-critical services and expand the reliability of existing ones
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Help to shape GRID's technological landscape together with experienced colleagues
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Participate in architectural discussions, providing feedback to coworkers and ensuring good practices
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Work closely together with product stakeholders to communicate progress and considerations effectively
Your skills will include (must have)
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Minimum of 3 years of commercial experience
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Deep knowledge of a strongly typed language (preferably Kotlin / Go)
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Explicit (nullable) types
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Strong, minimal contracts
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Helpful abstractions and class hierarchies / compositions (introduced at an appropriate time)
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Ambition to build robust, high-quality mission-critical systems, leveraging the power of:
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Automated testing
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Automated monitoring and alerting
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CI/CD infrastructure
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Know-how of good API design (preferably REST / GraphQL), paying attention to:
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Documentation
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Self-documenting naming and structures
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Minimal and extendable contracts (while minimizing breaking changes)
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Experience with GraphQL/REST APIs, micro-service architecture and container / orchestration systems (preferably Docker / Kubernetes), while bearing in mind:
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Complexity trade-offs
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Fault-tolerance design
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Knowledge of JIRA, Agile and Scrum
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Good communication skills, especially when working with remote teams
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Good attention to detail
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Being able to work CET time-zone
Nice to have
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Production experience with designing and maintaining GraphQL APIs.
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Knowledge of eSports and gaming.
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The ability to thrive in a fast-paced software startup that has incredible potential
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A passion for software engineering while writing clean, well-tested code
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Enthusiasm for working in a Lean, fully Agile environment
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Comfortable using AI tooling where necessary (ex. open code, github copilot, claude code)
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Knowledge of modern AI workflows
What you can expect from GRID’s Engineering Team
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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
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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
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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
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Organized: We strive for considered decisions, creating software that lasts. We document them in decision records, which any engineer in any team can drive
Required Skills
Required Languages
🇬🇧 English