Senior Backend Engineer
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
You'll design, build, and maintain backend services that power core products and platforms. You'll develop event-driven systems using Go and Kafka, and build scalable microservices in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes. You'll drive architecture decisions that improve performance, resiliency, and maintainability, and collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, and QA to deliver end-to-end solutions. You'll own your code in production, monitoring, debugging, and continuously improving service performance and reliability. You'll write automated tests and follow CI/CD best practices to ensure high-quality deployments, participate in code reviews and technical discussions, and take part in on-call rotation to support production systems and respond to incidents.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend development experience in Go or a similar language
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and event-based communication
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration such as Kubernetes and Docker
- Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, and performance optimization
- Ability to troubleshoot production issues, analyze system behavior, and drive resolution
- Background in gaming, payments, or commerce systems is nice to have
- Experience in adtech or offer monetization platforms is nice to have
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms is nice to have
- Experience with Redis or other in-memory data stores is nice to have
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP, or Azure is nice to have
- Familiarity with ClickHouse, Postgres, or other analytical, OLAP, or OLTP databases is nice to have
- Prior experience working on internal platforms or developer-facing tools is nice to have
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services that power core products and platforms
- Develop event-driven systems using Go and Kafka
- Build scalable microservices in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes
- Drive architecture decisions that improve performance, resiliency, and maintainability
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and QA to deliver end-to-end solutions
- Own your code in production, monitor, debug, and continuously improve service performance and reliability
- Write automated tests and follow CI/CD best practices to ensure high-quality deployments
- Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing across teams
- Participate in on-call rotation to support production systems and respond to incidents
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- PTO
- Personalized career roadmap
- Training and educational opportunities