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
Partner with senior engineers to identify opportunities for AI tooling and integrations, build applications on Xsolla APIs and SDKs, ship work to real users, use agentic coding tools as the default workflow, share weekly lightning-talk demos, and collaborate with engineers and fellow interns.
Requirements
- Genuine passion for building, demonstrated through side projects, hackathon entries, open-source contributions, or self-directed work.
- Real fluency using Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar agentic coding tools to build projects.
- Ability to explain how AI was used and how the result was confirmed to work.
- Bias toward action and willingness to start building on ambiguous problems before asking for a specification.
- Comfort developing modern full-stack solutions.
- Current undergraduate student, graduate student, or recent graduate in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related program.
Responsibilities
- Partner and collaborate with senior engineers to identify where AI tooling and integrations can remove friction, and build the fix.
- Build applications and integrations on Xsolla's 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, Cursor, or similar as the default way of working.
- Share work in weekly lightning-talk demos.
- Work with minimal process by taking context and a problem and figuring out the build.
- Learn from senior engineers and collaborate with fellow interns.
Hiring Process
Applicants should submit a GitHub profile, deployed project, or other self-directed work, plus a 2–3 sentence written answer or a 2-minute video/Loom describing something difficult they recently built and why. The employer also states that a background check may include criminal history, employment, and education verification.