Backend Engineer (m/f/x)

• 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! 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 Find Jobs in Germany on Arbeitnow