Jobs at GRID esports (Now Hiring) — 4 open

• 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