Backend Engineer (m/f/x)
GRID
WorldwideremotePosted 4 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Looking for someone well-versed in Kotlin or Go
- Building greenfield services and shaping technology landscape
- Joining Engineering team at GRID
- Full suite of automated tests with daily shipping
- Kanban-based agile working environment
- Work from CET time-zone
Role overview
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! This role involves building greenfield mission-critical services and expanding the reliability of existing ones, helping to shape GRID's technological landscape together with experienced colleagues. The position emphasizes participation in architectural discussions, collaboration with product stakeholders, and working closely with remote teams to communicate progress and considerations effectively.
Responsibilities
- 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
Requirements
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- 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
Additional details
- Highlights: We are looking for someone well-versed in Kotlin or Go to join our Engineering team. You will be developing greenfield services and taking an active role in shaping GRID's technology landscape!