GRID
Backend Engineer (m/f/x)
Remote Backend Engineering role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 5, 2026
Eligible countries3 accepted countries
Seniority signalMiddle
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
AustriaGermanySwitzerland
Role overview
Backend Engineer (m/f/x)
Requirements and responsibilities
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Details
- 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?
- Explicit (nullable) types
- Strong, minimal contracts
- Helpful abstractions and class hierarchies / compositions (introduced at an appropriate time)
- Automated testing
- Automated monitoring and alerting
- CI/CD infrastructure
- Documentation
- Self-documenting naming and structures
- Minimal and extendable contracts (while minimizing breaking changes)
- Complexity trade-offs
- Fault-tolerance design
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) typesStrong, minimal contractsHelpful abstractions and class hierarchies / compositions (introduced at an appropriate time)
- 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 testingAutomated monitoring and alertingCI/CD infrastructure
- Automated testing
- Automated monitoring and alerting
- CI/CD infrastructure
- Know-how of good API design (preferably REST / GraphQL), paying attention to:DocumentationSelf-documenting naming and structuresMinimal and extendable contracts (while minimizing breaking changes)
- 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-offsFault-tolerance design
- 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 haves
- 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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