Tech Lead - Fullstack
Xsolla (USA), Inc., operating under the Xsolla brand, is a global video game commerce and payments company serving game developers, publishers, creators, and payment providers.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Xsolla (USA), Inc.
Xsolla provides merchant-of-record and payment-processing services plus direct-to-consumer commerce, web shops, publishing and distribution tools, cloud gaming, fraud prevention, player engagement, creator monetization, and developer tooling for the video game industry. Its solutions operate across 200+ geographies with 1,000+ payment methods and are actively supported through live products, documentation, customer support, and ongoing hiring.
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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 lead full-stack architecture decisions and build scalable, resilient distributed systems. You will design service architectures, develop Go services and React interfaces, implement testing strategies, optimize performance, and mentor engineers. You will collaborate across product, design, and DevOps on event-driven workflows, cloud infrastructure, and modern web experiences.
Requirements
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with full-stack Go and React development
- Deep understanding of microservices, event-driven architecture, and domain-driven design
- Experience designing and building RESTful APIs or gRPC services in Go
- Proficiency in React hooks, context, and state-management libraries
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; Docker, Kubernetes; and infrastructure as code
- Experience with message brokers and event-streaming platforms
- Knowledge of relational and non-relational databases
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated unit, integration, and end-to-end testing
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools
- Understanding of distributed systems concepts including eventual consistency, idempotency, fault tolerance, and retry strategies
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to architecture decisions
- Communication and collaboration skills for cross-functional work
Responsibilities
- Lead full-stack architecture decisions
- Build scalable distributed systems
- Drive shared platform strategies across backend, frontend, and cloud ecosystems
- Design scalable service architectures
- Implement robust unit, integration, and end-to-end testing strategies
- Optimize full-stack performance
- Mentor junior and mid-level engineers
- Collaborate with product, design, and DevOps teams
- Contribute to architectural decision-making
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time off
- Training opportunities
- Educational opportunities
Hiring Process
Background check including criminal history, employment verification, and education verification.
