Tech Lead — LiveOps Team
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
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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
