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 alongside senior engineers, you'll help identify where AI tooling and integrations can remove friction across Xsolla and 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 with 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 or Cursor as your default way of working, and you'll share what you build in weekly lightning-talk demos with your global cohort of fellow interns. You'll work with minimal process: you'll get context, a problem, and a mentor, and the rest is on you to figure out and build.
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 to build something and how it was confirmed to work
- Bias toward action, starting to build before asking for a spec
- Comfort 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 that show internal teams how to move faster using AI-assisted development
- Ship work that reaches real users, whether an internal tool or a customer-facing integration
- Use agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor as your default way of working
- Share what you build in weekly lightning-talk demos
- Work with minimal process, taking context and a problem and figuring out the build
- Learn from and collaborate with senior engineers and fellow interns across markets