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Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

  • On-site, Remote, Hybrid
    • Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    • Wroclaw, Dolnośląskie, Poland
    +1 more
  • Engineering
  • Europe, Remote

We are looking for someone well-versed in Kotlin or Go to join our Engineering team - where you will be developing greenfield services and taking an active role in shaping GRID’s technology landscape.

Job description

  • 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!

Job requirements

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

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Details

On-site, Remote, Hybrid
  • Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  • Wroclaw, Dolnośląskie, Poland
+1 more
Engineering
Europe, Remote

Benefits of working at GRID

  • Flexible working conditions

  • Mental health support

  • Company and team-wide events

  • Work travel opportunities with travel insurance

  • Training and development budget

  • High-quality Swag/ Merch



About our culture

  • Flexibility: Work from the place that inspires and motivates you the most! From our awesome Berlin/ Wroclaw offices to the comfort of your own home. Meet up in person with your colleagues every so often, making use of the travel opportunities GRID offers

  • Sustainability: We want our employees to be well-rested and able to perform effectively. We offer a generous vacation allowance (28+ days a year) and the opportunity to speak with professional counselors to support mental health, covered by the business

  • Pragmatic: GRID thrives on being rational, allowing us to make the best decisions rather than keeping to rigid processes and procedures that don’t work well for us

  • Fostering growth: Empowering employees who are determined to grow by providing a self-development budget and strong career advancement opportunities. Support from your teammates to guide and encourage you to grow in your desired professional field

  • Company culture: We believe a diverse industry is best served with an inclusive and diverse workforce. With people based in over 24 countries, our latest employee survey shows that more than 98% agree that GRID provides a supportive, effective remote work environment

    

About GRID

Founded in 2018 in Berlin, GRID offers the GRID Data Platform to the esports & games industry. Specializing in in-game and play-by-play data, GRID curates data for game developers and tournament organizers and leverages its data platform to unlock the potential of rights holders’ data assets for storytelling, fan engagement, and integrity.

GRID works with game publishers and esports tournaments to provide best-in-class data from 20+ games to commercial partners and fan communities around the world. Our exclusive partners include Riot Games, Ubisoft, Krafton, EFG, BLAST, the ACL and many more.

If you have the ambition and desire to work at the forefront of cutting-edge industry projects, then GRID is the place for you.

Apply today to find out more and begin your journey!

Research continues to show that women and other underrepresented candidates are less likely to apply unless they meet most or all listed qualifications. If you think you have what it takes, even if you don't meet every single point on the job descriptions, please still get in touch. We would love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit!