Unreal Gameplay and Backend Programmer
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
Projects
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop and support gameplay features in C++ and Unreal Engine while building scalable backend-driven systems for multiplayer PC and console projects. You will work on client-server architecture, online services, APIs, matchmaking, integrations, performance, reliability, documentation, reviews, and cross-disciplinary development workflows.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of professional C++ and Unreal Engine experience
- Strong C++ programming expertise
- Extensive experience with Unreal Engine core gameplay framework
- Experience designing scalable Unreal Engine game architecture
- Open-world development and performance optimization experience
- Understanding of client-server networking architecture
- Experience developing multiplayer gameplay and matchmaking systems
- Experience integrating Unreal Engine with REST APIs authentication player data and matchmaking services
- Experience with HTTP APIs backend services and database architectures
- Experience shipping commercial Unreal Engine titles
- Experience shipping Unreal Engine projects on consoles
- Practical Gameplay Ability System experience
- Experience building scalable UI systems
- Understanding of Unreal Engine animation and AI systems
- Ability to maintain technical documentation
- Strong communication and reporting abilities
- Familiarity with the Lyra sample project is a plus
- MVVM design pattern experience is a plus
Responsibilities
- Develop and support core gameplay features
- Perform code reviews and maintain technical documentation
- Discuss technical solutions and implementation strategies
- Contribute to project architecture and infrastructure
- Improve development workflows and technical quality
- Collaborate across programming production design QA art and animation disciplines
Benefits
- Unlimited flexible time off
