Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

GRID

WorldwideremotePosted 1 month ago

Skill Required

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Key highlights

Minimum of 3 years of commercial experience required
Must have deep knowledge of a strongly typed language, preferably Kotlin or Go
Must be able to work in the CET time zone
Role involves building greenfield, mission‑critical services
Engineering team offers a robust CI/CD process enabling daily product impact
Experience with GraphQL/REST APIs, micro‑service architecture, Docker/Kubernetes is required

Role overview

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, leveraging the power of automated testing, automated monitoring and alerting, and CI/CD infrastructure
Know-how of good API design (preferably REST / GraphQL), paying attention to documentation, self-documenting naming and structures, and 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 and 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: robust CI/CD process and full suite of automated tests enable engineers to ship daily and make product impact from day one
Agile & Inclusively: kanban‑based self‑organizing product‑engineering teams where opinions and ideas are valued from all
Quality: detailed stories and epics, high test coverage, thorough code‑review process, conscious handling of technical debt, and an open culture of sharing opinions
Organized: considered decisions, lasting software, documented in decision records accessible to any engineer