AI-First Engineering Intern
Xsolla is a global video game commerce company providing tools and services to launch, monetize, and scale games. Its offerings include payments, web shops, publishing, distribution, LiveOps, anti-fraud, subscriptions, SDKs, and creator solutions for developers, publishers, payment providers, creators, and other gaming businesses.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Xsolla (USA), Inc.
Xsolla operates as a global merchant of record and video game commerce platform serving developers, publishers, resellers, payment providers, creators, and retailers. It provides payment processing across more than 200 countries and regions, 1,000+ payment methods, and 130+ currencies, alongside tax management, compliance, fraud prevention, refunds, dispute management, and end-user support. Its product portfolio includes Web Shop, Publishing Suite, Payments, Xsolla Pay, Mobile Buy Button, SDKs, Subscriptions, game distribution, Partner Network, Offerwall, LiveOps, Anti-Fraud, Login, Site Builder, cloud gaming, and related gaming commerce tools.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Work alongside senior engineers to identify friction that AI tooling and integrations can remove, then build and ship solutions on Xsolla APIs and SDKs. The internship emphasizes real-user impact, AI-assisted development, minimal process, and weekly demos with a global intern cohort.
Requirements
- Genuine passion for building, demonstrated through side projects, hackathons, open-source contributions, or self-directed work.
- Practical AI fluency with Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar agentic coding tools.
- Ability to explain how AI was used and how the resulting work was validated.
- Bias toward action and comfort starting with ambiguous problems.
- Comfort developing modern full-stack solutions.
- Current undergraduate or graduate student, or recent graduate, in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior engineers to identify friction that AI tooling and integrations can remove and build solutions.
- Build applications and integrations on Xsolla APIs and SDKs using AI-assisted development.
- Ship internal tools or customer-facing integrations that reach real users.
- Use agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor as the default workflow.
- Share work in weekly lightning-talk demos.
- Work with minimal process by turning context, problems, and mentorship into working software.
- Collaborate with senior engineers and fellow interns across markets.
Hiring Process
Applicants provide a GitHub profile, deployed project, or other work sample, plus a 2–3 sentence written answer or 2-minute video answering what they built recently and why. Candidates who proceed past the final interview may undergo a legally compliant background check with separate written consent.