Senior Backend Engineer
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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Candidate Availability
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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
