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
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will define and execute the engineering strategy, provide architectural and organizational guidance, and lead multiple distributed engineering teams. You will ensure timely, high-quality delivery of product and platform initiatives; improve workflows and development practices; evolve scalable and maintainable systems; align priorities with Product, QA, DevOps, and executive stakeholders; manage development risks; and promote observability, security, testing, and release management.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software development experience, including 5+ years in engineering leadership roles.
- Proven success 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 for 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 global team.
- Ensure high-quality, 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.
- Identify and mitigate risks across the development lifecycle.
- Promote observability, security, testing, and release-management best practices.
- Foster a high-performance culture focused on transparency, continuous improvement, quality, and innovation.
Benefits
- Unlimited Flexible Time Off
