AI-First Engineering Intern
Xsolla is a global video game commerce company providing payment processing, merchant-of-record services, monetization, publishing, distribution, fraud prevention, tax management, and direct-to-consumer tools. Its primary clients are video game developers, publishers, payment providers, creators, and players.
Projects
About Xsolla
Xsolla provides tools and services for launching, promoting, selling, and monetizing video games across mobile, PC, web, and other platforms. Its offerings include global payments, Pay Station, Web Shop, Buy Button, SDKs, APIs, authentication, subscriptions, virtual goods, game keys, game distribution, cloud gaming, anti-fraud, tax compliance, player support, analytics, LiveOps, creator campaigns, loyalty, rewards, and publishing tools. Xsolla serves game developers and publishers worldwide, as well as payment providers and gamers.
Skills
About the Role
You will partner with senior engineers to identify where AI tooling and integrations can remove friction and build the fix. You will build applications and integrations on top of Xsolla's APIs and SDKs that show internal teams how to move faster using AI-assisted development. You will ship work that reaches real users, use agentic coding tools like Claude Code or Cursor as your default way of working, and share what you build in weekly lightning-talk demos. You will work with minimal process, figuring things out independently with support from a mentor, and collaborate with fellow interns across markets.
Requirements
- Genuine passion for building with side projects, hackathon entries, open-source contributions, or self-directed shipped work
- Real AI fluency using agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot to build projects
- Bias toward action when given ambiguous problems
- Comfort with developing modern full-stack solutions
- Current undergraduate student, graduate student, or recent graduate of a Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related program
- Available to work 3 to 6 months, at least 4 days a week
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 top of Xsolla's APIs and SDKs that show internal teams how to move faster using AI-assisted development
- Empower the technology department with AI tools to improve project efficiency
- Ship work that reaches real users, whether internal tools or customer-facing integrations
- Use agentic coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) as your default way of working
- Participate in weekly 30-second lightning-talk demos showing how you used AI to solve something that week
- Work with minimal process, figuring out problems and building solutions independently
- Learn from and collaborate with senior engineers and fellow interns across markets