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    • 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

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