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
Build real customer-facing applications and integrations on Xsolla APIs and SDKs, demonstrate AI-assisted development, ship work to real users, and collaborate with senior engineers and fellow interns.
Requirements
- Genuine passion for building demonstrated through side projects, hackathon entries, open-source contributions, or self-directed work.
- Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot to build something.
- Ability to explain how AI was used and how the resulting work was verified.
- Bias toward action and willingness to start building before requesting a specification.
- 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, then build the fix.
- Build applications and integrations on Xsolla APIs and SDKs to demonstrate AI-assisted development.
- Ship internal or customer-facing work that reaches real users.
- Use agentic coding tools such as Claude Code or Cursor as the default development workflow.
- Share weekly lightning-talk demos of work built with AI.
- Work with minimal process by taking context and a problem and determining how to proceed.
- Learn from senior engineers and collaborate with interns across markets.
Hiring Process
Submit a GitHub profile, deployed project, or other self-directed work, plus a 2–3 sentence written response or a 2-minute video/Loom answering what difficult thing you built recently and why. There are no take-home assignments or formal problem sets. A background check may be conducted after the final interview where permitted by law.