Software Development Director
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
Lead the global software engineering function, oversee multiple development teams, provide architectural and organizational guidance, improve delivery practices, and ensure products and platforms remain scalable, secure, performant, and maintainable.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software development experience, including 5+ years in engineering leadership roles
- Experience leading large-scale cross-functional engineering teams in complex high-growth environments
- Expertise in modern architectures, cloud infrastructure, and microservices
- Understanding of Agile development methodologies, CI/CD practices, and engineering metrics
- Experience managing distributed teams and scaling organizations across multiple geographies
- Communication and stakeholder management skills with technical and non-technical leaders
- Decision-making and problem-solving ability in high-stakes environments
- Fluent written and verbal English
Responsibilities
- Define and execute the engineering strategy aligned with company objectives
- Provide architectural and organizational guidance for long-term scalability and success
- Lead, mentor, and develop engineering teams, team leads, and senior developers
- Establish clear goals and growth opportunities across a distributed team
- Ensure high-quality and timely delivery of product and platform initiatives
- Optimize workflows, development methodologies, and technical decision-making
- Guide system architecture evolution for scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Champion modern technologies and development practices
- Partner with Product, QA, DevOps, and executive stakeholders to align priorities and define technical requirements
- Maintain a shared roadmap
- Identify and mitigate development lifecycle risks
- Promote observability, security, testing, and release-management best practices
- Foster transparency, continuous improvement, quality, and innovation
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time off
Hiring Process
Background check including criminal history check, employment verification, and education verification.