Backend Engineer (Go)
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.
Maintainer signals as of 8/14/2026
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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.
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About the Role
You will play a pivotal role in delivering high-impact software solutions across the platform. You'll build and ship reliable, secure, and scalable backend systems, owning implementation from design to deployment while ensuring maintainability and performance. You'll participate in architectural discussions, offer informed technical input, and refactor legacy codebases to improve structure and efficiency without breaking existing features. You'll drive production readiness by handling incident response, root cause analysis, and observability improvements. You'll write clear, testable, and well-documented code, contribute to a culture of engineering excellence through code reviews and design discussions, and advocate for sound software development practices. You'll work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to align on objectives, contribute to technical scoping and estimation, and identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve the developer experience.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Go (Golang) in production environments
- Strong experience working with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL
- Proficient with containerization and orchestration tools: Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), and Helm
- Familiarity with messaging systems like RabbitMQ or Kafka
- Comfortable using Git and CI/CD tooling in collaborative workflows
- Working knowledge of frontend technologies, especially React and/or Next.js
- Basic understanding of cloud platforms (GCP preferred)
Responsibilities
- Build and ship reliable, secure, and scalable backend systems
- Own implementation from design to deployment, ensuring maintainability and performance
- Participate in architectural discussions and offer informed technical input
- Refactor legacy codebases to improve structure and efficiency while maintaining feature continuity
- Drive production readiness by handling incident response, root cause analysis, and observability improvements
- Write clear, testable, and well-documented code, emphasizing quality and automation
- Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence through code reviews and design discussions
- Advocate for sound software development practices and continuous improvement
- Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to align on objectives and deliverables
- Contribute to technical scoping and estimation for features and infrastructure work
- Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve the developer experience