Senior Software Engineer Go
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 8/12/2026
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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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About the Role
You will design, build, and maintain backend services for core products and platforms. You will develop event-driven systems with Go, Kafka, and Temporal or similar orchestration tools, and build scalable microservices in Docker and Kubernetes environments. You will drive architecture decisions to improve performance, resiliency, and maintainability. You will own code in production by monitoring, debugging, and improving service reliability. You will write automated tests, follow CI/CD practices, participate in code reviews, and collaborate on end-to-end solutions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend development experience in Go or a similar language.
- 2+ years of hands-on experience with Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and event-based communication.
- Experience with workflow orchestration tools such as Temporal, Cadence, or similar.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration, including Kubernetes and Docker.
- Solid understanding of observability, monitoring, and performance optimization.
- Ability to troubleshoot production issues, analyze system behavior, and drive resolution.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services that power core products and platforms.
- Develop event-driven systems using Go, Kafka, and Temporal or similar orchestration tools.
- 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 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.
