Senior Backend Engineer
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'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 (e.g., Kubernetes, 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 (nice to have)
- Experience in adtech or offer monetization platforms (nice to have)
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms (nice to have)
- Experience with Redis or other in-memory data stores (nice to have)
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, or Azure) (nice to have)
- Familiarity with ClickHouse, Postgres, or other analytical/OLAP/OLTP databases (nice to have)
- Prior experience working on internal platforms or developer-facing tools (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