Backend Engineer (PHP&Golang)
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 develop new functionality and maintain it for our platform. You'll create new services to support new features and have the opportunity to offer your own ideas for improving the product. You'll work with PHP and/or Golang in a fast-paced, collaborative environment, writing testable code and participating in team development.
Requirements
- Have experience in programming and industrial web application backend development in PHP and/or Golang
- Have a good understanding of algorithms and data structures
- Understand decomposition principles, OOP and patterns
- Can write testable code, unit and functional tests
- Have a good command of SQL, database design, OLTP/OLAP approaches
- Participate in team development
Responsibilities
- Develop new functionality and maintain it
- Create new services for new features
- Offer new ideas for improving the product
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- PTO
- Personalized career roadmap
- Professional development through training and educational opportunities