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Senior Backend Engineer

Xsolla187 open roles

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Russia
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Early applications get read.

12.1% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Xsolla postings stay open a median of 38 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.1%1 day
  2. 4.5%3 days
  3. 12.1%7 days
  4. 19.1%14 days
  5. 35.6%30 days
  6. 52.7%60 days
This job: posted 4 days ago

Xsolla median: 38 days open

The posting

ABOUT US

Xsolla is a global commerce company with robust tools and services to help developers solve the inherent challenges of the video game industry. From indie to AAA, companies partner with Xsolla to help them fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games. Grounded in the belief in the future of video games, Xsolla is resolute in the mission to bring opportunities together, and continually make new resources available to creators. Headquartered and incorporated in Los Angeles, California, Xsolla operates as the merchant of record and has helped over 1,500+ game developers to reach more players and grow their businesses around the world. With more paths to profits and ways to win, developers have all the things needed to enjoy the game.

For more information, visit xsolla.com.

The role

  • Xsolla ID is the identity and authentication platform behind sign-in, account management and SSO across Xsolla products.
  • Xsolla ZK is Web3 wallet infrastructure: smart wallets and account abstraction on a zkSync-based L2.
  • The backend services of your product area end to end: design, implementation, release and production operation, including on-call
  • Architecture across services: service boundaries, integration contracts and data ownership. You make these decisions and justify them in writing
  • Reliability and security of critical flows: SLOs, failure handling, protection of user data and credentials
  • Service performance and cost under load
  • Design and build services and APIs (REST, gRPC) for authentication, account management and wallet operations
  • Define service boundaries and integration contracts with other Xsolla teams
  • Design data models and storage; optimize schemas and queries
  • Build event-driven and asynchronous workflows
  • Own observability: metrics, logs, tracing and alerting, and act on what production tells you
  • Take part in on-call, incident response and post-mortems
  • Improve the engineering environment: CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, testing
  • Review code
  • Set up and maintain AI tooling in the repositories (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor: rules, context, harness) so the team uses it effectively

Responsibilities

  • Language and platform 5+ years of commercial backend development Go: idiomatic code, concurrency (goroutines, channels, context and cancellation), memory and performance profiling (pprof) Data Relational databases (PostgreSQL, MySQL): schema design, indexes, query plans, transactions and isolation levels, safe migrations Caching (Redis): when to cache, invalidation, consistency trade-offs Distributed systems Service architecture and distributed-systems trade-offs: consistency, availability, idempotency, retries, failure modes Asynchronous messaging and event-driven design (Kafka, RabbitMQ or NATS): delivery guarantees, ordering, reprocessing APIs Designing REST and gRPC APIs: versioning, backward compatibility, contract documentation (OpenAPI / Swagger, Protobuf) Security and identity Application security: common vulnerability classes (OWASP Top 10), secrets management, safe handling of user data OAuth 2.0 / OIDC from the server side: flows, tokens, sessions Operations Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) at the level of deploying and debugging your own services Observability (we use Datadog; experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / Graylog or OpenTelemetry also counts): metrics, logs, tracing and alerting; diagnosing incidents in production Engineering practices Testing: unit, integration, contract Git, CI/CD (GitLab CI or similar) AI-assisted engineering Daily hands-on use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) for development and review, including configuring them for a repository English Reading technical documentation in English

Nice to Have

  • Web3 backend experience: blockchain integration, wallet infrastructure, account abstraction
  • High-load systems
  • Cloud platforms (GCP, AWS or Azure) and infrastructure-as-code
  • NoSQL databases (MongoDB or similar)
  • Domain experience in gaming, e-commerce, fintech or payments
  • Decisions in writing. Significant technical decisions are written up as an RFC or ADR that lays out the options and trade-offs. We discuss the document, not a blank whiteboard.
  • AI is part of everyday engineering. We use AI coding tools for development and review, and we treat configuring them for a codebase as real engineering work.
  • Intro call. Your background, your motivation and the role.
  • Technical interview. Built directly on the What you will own and Required sections above. We won't ask about anything this posting doesn't promise.
  • Bar raiser. An engineer from outside the hiring team checks that you raise the overall engineering bar.

BENEFITS

We are passionate about fostering a supportive environment for our team, so we prioritize the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of our employees and their families through a comprehensive Benefits Program. This includes medical, dental, and vision, PTO, and a personalized career roadmap for each employee. By investing in professional development through training and educational opportunities, we ensure that our team thrives both personally and professionally. Together, we're not just building a business; we're cultivating a community that values creativity, collaboration, and the transformative power of play.

EMPLOYMENT DETAILS

  • Location: Remote
  • Employment Type: Full-time
  • Schedule: 10:00–19:00 (flexible)
  • Contract: Employment agreement (entity or EOR arranged per candidate location)

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT STATEMENT

Xsolla is dedicated to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, language, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, political beliefs, disability, age, marital status, social background or other characteristics.

We are committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

CONTACT

If you have questions regarding our hiring practices, please contact [email protected]. For more vacancies, visit xsolla.com/careers.

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