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 will build AI tooling, integrations, and proof-of-concept applications using APIs and SDKs. You will collaborate with senior engineers, ship work for real users, use agentic coding tools, present weekly demos, and independently solve ambiguous technical problems.
Requirements
- Demonstrated passion for building through side projects, hackathons, open-source contributions, or shipped work.
- Experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, or similar to build and validate solutions.
- Comfort solving ambiguous problems independently.
- Comfort developing modern full-stack solutions.
- Current undergraduate student, graduate student, or recent graduate of a Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related program.
- Provide a link to a GitHub profile, deployed project, or other work you have built.
- Provide a short answer or video describing something difficult you built recently and why you built it.
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior engineers to identify and build AI tooling and integrations that remove friction.
- Build applications and integrations on top of APIs and SDKs using AI-assisted development.
- Ship internal tools and customer-facing integrations for real users.
- Use agentic coding tools as a default way of working.
- Present weekly lightning-talk demos showing how you used AI.
- Work independently with minimal process, context, a problem, and a mentor.
- Collaborate with senior engineers and fellow interns across regions.