[Hiring] Backend Engineer @GRID eSports GmbH

Role 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!

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

Qualifications

• 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

Requirements

• Production experience with designing and maintaining GraphQL APIs (nice to have)
• Knowledge of eSports and gaming (nice to have)
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced software startup that has incredible potential (nice to have)
• A passion for software engineering while writing clean, well-tested code (nice to have)
• Enthusiasm for working in a Lean, fully Agile environment (nice to have)
• Comfortable using AI tooling where necessary (ex. open code, github copilot, claude code) (nice to have)
• Knowledge of modern AI workflows (nice to have)

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