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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About the Role
You will lead global software engineering and execute high-impact product and platform initiatives. You will provide architectural and organizational guidance, develop engineering leaders, and optimize development workflows and technical decision-making. You will guide scalable, performant, maintainable system architecture; align priorities and technical requirements with Product, QA, DevOps, and executive stakeholders; manage development-lifecycle risks; and promote observability, security, testing, and release-management practices.
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
- Decision-making and problem-solving ability in high-stakes environments
- Fluent written and verbal English
- Willingness and ability to relocate to Baku, Azerbaijan
Responsibilities
- Define and execute engineering strategy aligned with company objectives
- Provide architectural and organizational guidance for long-term scalability and success
- Lead, mentor, and develop multiple engineering teams, including team leads and senior developers
- Establish clear goals and create growth opportunities across a global, distributed team
- Ensure high-quality, timely delivery of product and platform initiatives
- Optimize workflows, development methodologies, and technical decision-making
- Guide the evolution of system architecture for scalability, performance, and maintainability
- Champion modern technologies and development practices
- Align priorities, technical requirements, and a shared roadmap with Product, QA, DevOps, and executive stakeholders
- Identify and mitigate risks across the development lifecycle
- Promote best practices in observability, security, testing, and release management
- Foster a high-performance culture grounded in transparency, continuous improvement, quality, and innovation
