Tech Lead — LiveOps Team
Xsolla is a global video game commerce company providing tools and services to launch, monetize, and scale games. Its offerings include payments, web shops, publishing, distribution, LiveOps, anti-fraud, subscriptions, SDKs, and creator solutions for developers, publishers, payment providers, creators, and other gaming businesses.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Xsolla (USA), Inc.
Xsolla operates as a global merchant of record and video game commerce platform serving developers, publishers, resellers, payment providers, creators, and retailers. It provides payment processing across more than 200 countries and regions, 1,000+ payment methods, and 130+ currencies, alongside tax management, compliance, fraud prevention, refunds, dispute management, and end-user support. Its product portfolio includes Web Shop, Publishing Suite, Payments, Xsolla Pay, Mobile Buy Button, SDKs, Subscriptions, game distribution, Partner Network, Offerwall, LiveOps, Anti-Fraud, Login, Site Builder, cloud gaming, and related gaming commerce tools.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Own the technical direction of the LiveOps Monetization platform. Lead the design and development of scalable services and dashboards, guide backend and frontend engineering, make architectural decisions, mentor engineers, improve performance and reliability, and work with Product and Design on complex workflows.
Requirements
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership responsibilities.
- Strong backend experience and understanding of frontend architecture.
- Experience designing scalable microservices and APIs.
- Strong database knowledge in PostgreSQL and MySQL.
- Experience with distributed systems, performance tuning, and monitoring.
- Strong communication, stakeholder alignment, and decision-making skills.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable LiveOps services and dashboards.
- Provide technical leadership across PHP, Go, React, and NextJS.
- Architect highly available real-time operational tools.
- Mentor engineers, lead code reviews, and drive engineering best practices.
- Work with Product and Design to deliver complex LiveOps workflows.
- Improve performance, observability, and reliability.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Paid time off
- Personalized career roadmap
- Training and educational opportunities
