Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

<ul><li><p>Are you passionate about building event-driven systems?</p></li><li><p>Do you have a strong grasp of Kotlin or Go?</p></li><li><p>Do you enjoy finding solutions for significantly impactful challenges?</p></li></ul><p style=";"></p><p>If the answers to the above questions are yes, then this role could be ideal for you!</p><br /><br /><h4>What you will do </h4><ul><li><p>Build greenfield mission-critical services and expand the reliability of existing ones</p></li><li><p>Help to shape GRID's technological landscape together with experienced colleagues</p></li><li><p>Participate in architectural discussions, providing feedback to coworkers and ensuring good practices</p></li><li><p>Work closely together with product stakeholders to communicate progress and considerations effectively</p><p style=";"></p></li></ul><h4>Your skills will include (must have)</h4><ul><li><p>Minimum of 3 years of commercial experience</p></li><li><p>Deep knowledge of a strongly typed language (preferably Kotlin / Go)</p><ul><li><p>Explicit (nullable) types</p></li><li><p>Strong, minimal contracts</p></li><li><p>Helpful abstractions and class hierarchies / compositions (introduced at an appropriate time)</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Ambition to build robust, high-quality mission-critical systems, leveraging the power of:</p><ul><li><p>Automated testing</p></li><li><p>Automated monitoring and alerting</p></li><li><p>CI/CD infrastructure</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Know-how of good API design (preferably REST / GraphQL), paying attention to:</p><ul><li><p>Documentation</p></li><li><p>Self-documenting naming and structures</p></li><li><p>Minimal and extendable contracts (while minimizing breaking changes)</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Experience with GraphQL/REST APIs, micro-service architecture and container / orchestration systems (preferably Docker / Kubernetes), while bearing in mind:</p><ul><li><p>Complexity trade-offs</p></li><li><p>Fault-tolerance design</p></li></ul></li><li><p>Knowledge of JIRA, Agile and Scrum</p></li><li><p>Good communication skills, especially when working with remote teams</p></li><li><p>Good attention to detail</p></li><li><p>Being able to work CET time zone</p><p style=";"></p></li></ul><h4>Nice to have</h4><ul><li><p>Production experience with designing and maintaining GraphQL APIs.</p></li><li><p>Knowledge of eSports and gaming.</p></li><li><p>The ability to thrive in a fast-paced software startup that has incredible potential</p></li><li><p>A passion for software engineering while writing clean, well-tested code</p></li><li><p>Enthusiasm for working in a Lean, fully Agile environment</p></li><li><p>Comfortable using AI tooling where necessary (ex. open code, github copilot, claude code)</p></li><li><p>Knowledge of modern AI workflows</p></li></ul><p style=";"></p><h4>What you can expect from GRID’s Engineering Team</h4><ul><li><p>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</p></li><li><p>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</p></li><li><p>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</p></li><li><p>Organized: We strive for considered decisions, creating software that lasts. We document them in decision records, which any engineer in any team can drive</p></li></ul><p style=";"></p><p>Find <a href="https://www.arbeitnow.com/">Jobs in Germany</a> on Arbeitnow</a>