Technical Lead
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 lead technical solution and architecture discussions, set engineering standards, and guide modernization and refactoring work. You will build scalable end-to-end software, own production issue triage, strengthen testing and code reviews, improve developer workflows, and mentor engineers while balancing technical and business priorities.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software development experience
- 2+ years of Go experience
- 2+ years of Technical Lead experience
- Experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL
- Proficiency with Git, Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
- Experience with RabbitMQ and/or Kafka
- Basic understanding of React and/or Next.js
- Basic cloud computing knowledge, preferably Google Cloud Platform
Responsibilities
- Lead discussions on technical solutions and architecture
- Influence technical decisions and establish engineering standards
- Lead refactoring and modernization efforts while meeting delivery timelines
- Identify and prioritize technical debt
- Collaborate with product and engineering leads to balance business and technical priorities
- Build and deliver end-to-end software solutions
- Own production issues and define triage and resolution processes
- Implement test coverage and uphold code review standards
- Improve developer tools, processes, and workflows
- Guide, mentor, and inspire engineers
