Senior Backend Engineer
Xsolla (USA), Inc., operating under the Xsolla brand, is a global video game commerce and payments company serving game developers, publishers, creators, and payment providers.
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About Xsolla (USA), Inc.
Xsolla provides merchant-of-record and payment-processing services plus direct-to-consumer commerce, web shops, publishing and distribution tools, cloud gaming, fraud prevention, player engagement, creator monetization, and developer tooling for the video game industry. Its solutions operate across 200+ geographies with 1,000+ payment methods and are actively supported through live products, documentation, customer support, and ongoing hiring.
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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 will design, build, release, and operate backend services for authentication, account management, and wallet operations. You will define service architecture and data models, build APIs and asynchronous workflows, improve observability and delivery practices, participate in on-call response, review code, and maintain repository AI tooling.
Requirements
- 5+ years of commercial backend development
- Go
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
- Distributed systems
- Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS
- REST
- gRPC
- OpenAPI
- Swagger
- Protobuf
- Application security
- OWASP Top 10
- Secrets management
- OAuth 2.0
- OIDC
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Observability
- Datadog or Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Graylog, or OpenTelemetry
- Testing
- Git
- CI/CD
- GitLab CI or similar
- Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor
- English technical documentation
Responsibilities
- Design, build, release, and operate backend services
- Define service boundaries, integration contracts, and data ownership
- Ensure reliability and security of critical flows
- Design and build REST and gRPC APIs
- Design data models and optimize schemas and queries
- Build event-driven and asynchronous workflows
- Own metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting
- Participate in on-call, incident response, and post-mortems
- Improve CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and testing
- Review code
- Set up and maintain repository AI tooling
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- PTO
- Flexible schedule
- Training and educational opportunities
Hiring Process
Intro call; technical interview; bar raiser interview.
