Software Development Director
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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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
You will lead the global software engineering function and drive high-impact technical initiatives. You will oversee multiple development teams, provide architectural and organizational guidance, improve delivery practices, and ensure products and platforms remain scalable, secure, performant, and maintainable. You will work with Product, QA, DevOps, and executive stakeholders to align priorities, define technical requirements, manage risks, and maintain a shared roadmap. You will also mentor engineering leaders, develop distributed teams, and promote observability, security, testing, release management, continuous improvement, and quality.
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