Tech Lead – Frontend Platform Team
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 provide technical leadership for the frontend platform, define its architecture and standards, and guide technical direction. You will lead delivery, modernization, testing, CI/CD, operational reliability, and cross-functional platform integration while coaching engineers and communicating technical trade-offs.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience with modern frontend engineering at scale.
- At least 3 years in a similar Tech Lead role.
- Hands-on knowledge of React, including component architecture, SSR patterns, RSC, and complex UI data flows.
- Proficiency with Node.js and MongoDB.
- Understanding of modern styling systems, theming approaches, vanilla-extract, styled-components, and design tokens.
- TypeScript practices, including strict typing, shared contracts, and schema validation with Zod or equivalent.
- Experience with Module Federation.
- Understanding of bundling and compilation with webpack, Rollup, Vite, or esbuild.
- Experience with Vitest or Jest and end-to-end testing with Playwright or Cypress.
- Understanding of backend integration patterns, including REST, GraphQL, and RPC-style APIs.
- Experience with CI/CD workflows, GitLab CI or similar, private registries, and secure artifact handling.
- Ability to lead engineers, own architectural decisions, and manage delivery for complex platform projects.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for the frontend platform, defining architecture, coding standards, and long-term technical direction.
- Coach, mentor, and manage approximately eight developers.
- Partner with other Tech Leads to ensure architectural alignment, consistent standards, and unified decision-making.
- Oversee planning and execution of platform features and improvements.
- Drive modernization, refactoring, and performance enhancements.
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices for coding, documentation, testing, and reviews.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and platform teams.
- Ensure automated test coverage and reliable CI/CD workflows.
- Leverage automation and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development and improve consistency.
- Own incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
- Advocate for scalability, performance, security, and observability.
- Identify technical risks, estimate complexity, and communicate trade-offs.
- Align with engineering teams on shared services, APIs, rendering pipelines, and platform interfaces.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time off
