AI-First Engineering Intern
Xsolla is a video game commerce company that provides a suite of tools and services—including merchant of record payment processing, tax management, fraud prevention, compliance, refunds, dispute management, and end-user support—to help game developers and publishers launch, grow, and monetize their games globally. It serves video game developers, publishers, and studios of all sizes across global and regional markets.
About Xsolla
Xsolla connects the tools, systems, payments, and web shops used by the video games industry, positioning itself as a global merchant of record supporting over 1,000 payment methods and a cumulative audience of 50 million, with transaction fees around 5%. Its services include tax management, fraud monitoring and prevention, global and regional regulatory compliance, refund and dispute management, and end-user payment support. Xsolla's product lineup includes the Xsolla SDK for native in-app payments on side-loaded apps and alternative app stores, a Buy Button enabling link-out purchases from iOS mobile games in the U.S., and Web Shop for building customized, direct-to-consumer game storefronts. The company works with major gaming industry partners and clients such as Mytona, Ubisoft, MARVEL SNAP, and others, and highlights partner success stories, industry events, and its own culture and hiring initiatives on its site.
Skills
About the Role
You'll dive straight into building rather than shadowing. Working closely with senior engineers, you'll partner to identify where AI tooling and integrations can remove friction, then build the fix yourself. You'll build applications and integrations on top of Xsolla's APIs and SDKs that demonstrate to internal teams how to move faster using AI-assisted development. Everything you build is expected to reach real users, whether that's an internal tool adopted by an engineering team or a customer-facing integration, not a throwaway exercise. You'll use agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, or similar as your default way of working. Each week you'll join lightning-talk demos to share how you used AI to solve something real, and you'll operate with minimal process, given context, a problem, and a mentor, and figuring the rest out yourself. You'll also learn from and collaborate with senior engineers who mentor you on production-grade practices, and with fellow interns across markets you'll trade ideas and code with.
Requirements
- Genuine passion for building, with side projects, hackathon entries, open-source contributions, or self-directed work
- Real AI fluency using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar agentic coding tools to build something
- Ability to explain how AI was used and how the result was confirmed to work
- Bias toward action, starting to build before asking for a spec
- Comfort with developing modern full-stack solutions
- Current undergraduate student, graduate student, or recent graduate of a Computer Science, Software Engineering, or 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 top of Xsolla's APIs and SDKs
- Ship work that reaches real users, whether internal tools or customer-facing integrations
- Use agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor as the default way of working
- Share weekly lightning-talk demos showing how AI was used to solve a problem
- Work with minimal process, using context, a problem, and a mentor to figure out the rest
- Learn from and collaborate with senior engineers and fellow interns across markets