Junior Software Engineer

• Are you passionate about creating amazing products?

• Do you want to grow and reach your potential?

• Are you willing to learn and grow your skills into a new domain?

• Are you hungry for feedback and not afraid to ask the questions you need in order to succeed?

If the answers to the above questions are yes, then this role could be ideal for you!

We are looking for someone to join the Engineering team, either on the Frontend (React) or the Backend (Go/Kotlin) - where you will learn about best practices and how to put them to use in GRID’s technology landscape. You will be working alongside experienced engineers, acting as mentors so you can develop yourself and grow as an engineer, in- and outside of GRID.

What you will do

• Learn alongside passionate and experienced coworkers

• Receive feedback on your technical contributions, as well as on developing your soft skills

• 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, receiving but also providing feedback and picking up on best practices

• Work closely together with your team to communicate progress and considerations effectively

Your skills will include

• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced software startup that has incredible potential

• Enthusiasm for working in a Lean, fully Agile environment

• Good attention to detail

• Experience with self-built projects that demonstrate your desire to build and learn

  • Please provide us with any supporting material you might have (Github, personal website, Stackoverflow, …)

• Good communication skills, especially when working with remote teams

• Being able to work CET time zone

About our culture

• Flexibility: Work from wherever you want, in the office, from home, or wherever inspires and motivates you. Meet up in-person with your colleagues every so often, making use of the travel opportunities GRID offers. FTC for those based in Germany, Poland, Sweden

• Sustainability: We’re not a typical start up. We want our engineers to be rested and able to perform. We offer a generous vacation allowance (28+ days a year) and the opportunity to speak with professional counselors to support mental health - covered by the business

• Pragmatic: GRID thrives on being pragmatic, allowing us to make the best decisions, rather than keeping to rigid processes and procedures that don’t work well for us

• 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

• Fostering growth: Empowering employees who are determined to grow by providing a self-development budget and strong career advancement opportunities. Support from your teammates to guide and encourage you to grow in your desired professional field

• Company culture: We believe a diverse industry is best served with a diverse workforce, and we are a great place to work, with recent employee surveys showing over 98% workplace satisfaction

About GRID

Founded in 2018 in Berlin, GRID offers the GRID Data Platform to the esports & games industry. Specialized in in-game, play-by-play data, GRID curates data for game developers and tournament organizers and leverages its data platform to unlock the potential of the right holders’ data assets for the purposes of storytelling, fan engagement, and integrity.

GRID’s official data partnerships cover multiple partnered rights holders (data sources), and integrated commercial data consumers, covering 15+ game titles. The partners' list includes industry leaders such as BLAST Premier, PGL, WePlay Esports, Riot Games (VALORANT), and Krafton (PUBG).

If you have the ambition and desire to work at the forefront of cutting-edge industry projects, then GRID is the place for you. For more information please visit www.grid.gg.