Tech Lead (Parental Control)

13 hours agoLead Perm or Moscow, hybrid Hybrid Full Time Engineering Management Jobs by Xsolla (USA), Inc.

Skills

Angular Api Ci/Cd Docker Go Grpc Hiring Jwt Kubernetes Leadership Oauth2 Postgresql Rabbitmq React Redis Security Temporal Typescript

Candidate Availability

Hybrid · Perm · Required

Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.

About the Role

You will build the team and the service that checks a player's age and gets a parent's consent before a child can buy. This is a hands-on coding role: you write production code at least half of your week, make architecture decisions, and hire the engineers who build it with you. You will work with Go, gRPC, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Temporal, TypeScript, Angular, React, Docker, Kubernetes and more.

Requirements

7+ years in software engineering, Go as main language for the last 3+ years
2+ years as tech lead or team lead of 4+ engineers with hiring experience
Backend depth: API design, PostgreSQL, message queues, idempotent third-party integrations, workflow orchestration (Temporal or similar)
TypeScript sufficient to review React or Angular code and design a small embeddable web SDK
Security basics for identity flows: JWT, OAuth2, webhook signatures, XSS, CSRF, CSP
Operations: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, tracing and metrics, on-call
Daily use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor)
English at B2 or higher

Responsibilities

Write production Go and TypeScript: status API, token validation, consent rules, standalone widget and web SDK
Own the architecture and document it
Hire and grow a team of about six backend, frontend and QA engineers
Set up team processes: code review, CI, releases, on-call, AI coding tools
Keep children's data safe: token validation, consent records, server-side decisions
Work with Legal and Security teams on requirements, dependencies and release gates

Benefits