Tech Lead – Frontend Platform Team
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Job Summary
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 1500 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.
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ABOUT YOU
We are looking for a Tech Lead for the Frontend Platform Team provides technical leadership for Xsollas core platform responsible for powering all user-facing experiences. This role combines deep engineering expertise with people leadership guiding a team of approximately eight developers. The Tech Lead shapes the platforms architecture improves developer workflows and ensures high-quality scalable solutions that support storefronts widgets and other monetization-focused experiences used across the Xsolla ecosystem.
This position requires strong frontend and platform-level experience the ability to lead complex technical initiatives and the capability to support predictable reliable delivery.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide technical leadership for the Xsolla frontend platform defining architecture coding standards and long-term technical direction.
- Coach mentor and manage a team of 8 developers supporting professional growth and maintaining a strong engineering culture.
- Partner closely with the other Tech Leads working on the same platform to ensure architectural alignment consistent standards and unified decision-making.
- Oversee planning and execution of platform features and improvements ensuring smooth delivery and high-quality outcomes.
- Drive modernization refactoring and performance enhancements to keep the platform scalable maintainable and aligned with product goals.
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices across coding documentation testing and review processes.
- Collaborate with product managers designers backend engineers and platform teams to deliver cohesive partner-facing experiences.
- Ensure strong automated test coverage and reliable CI/CD workflows that reduce manual effort and improve delivery predictability.
- Leverage automation and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development improve consistency and increase developer velocity.
- Own operational excellence including incident response root-cause analysis and long-term reliability improvements.
- Advocate for scalability performance security and observability across the platforms architecture and tooling.
- Identify technical risks estimate complexity and communicate trade-offs to leadership and stakeholders.
- Foster alignment with other engineering teams on shared services APIs rendering pipelines and platform interfaces.
REQUIREMENTS
- 8 years of software development experience with strong expertise in modern frontend engineering at scale. At least 3 years in a similar tech lead role.
- Deep hands-on knowledge of React including component architecture SSR patterns RSC and complex UI data flows.
- Proficiency with and MongoDB for server-side functionality.
- Strong understanding of modern styling systems and theming approaches (vanilla-extract styled-components design tokens).
- Solid TypeScript practices including strict typing shared contracts and schema validation (Zod or equivalent).
- Experience with Module Federation
- Good understanding of bundling and compilation experience with webpack/rollup/vite/esbuild.
- Experience with automated testing frameworks (Vitest/Jest) and end-to-end testing (Playwright/Cypress).
- Good understanding of backend integration patterns (REST GraphQL RPC-style APIs).
- Experience with CI/CD workflows (GitLab CI or similar) private registries and secure artifact handling.
- Proven ability to lead engineers own architectural decisions and manage delivery for complex platform projects.
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience building platforms or tooling used across multiple frontend teams (design systems template engines configuration frameworks).Experience with react-native/mobile experience
- Knowledge of performance optimization strategies for client-side and server-side rendering.
- Understanding of accessibility internationalization and semantic UI design best practices.
- Experience developing SDKs CLI tools or developer-facing automation.
- Familiarity with event-driven UI flows real-time interfaces or edge-rendering strategies.
- Background improving developer platforms observability stacks or performance monitoring systems.
- Comfort with UI-as-data approaches and leveraging AI-assisted/no-code tooling to accelerate feature delivery.
$130000 - $150000 a year
The listed range is specific to Montreal Canada and varies based on factors such as location and experience.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:
Xsolla is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We do not discriminate based on race color religion sex national origin age disability sexual orientation gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law.
We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with the Fair Chance Act.
Criminal History Consideration:
For the Tech Lead - Frontend Platform Team we will conduct a background check that may include the following:
Criminal history check
Employment verification
Education verification
Relevance to Job Responsibilities:
The background check is relevant to this position because of the following role responsibilities:
Accessing confidential company data
Ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements
Handling sensitive financial information/managing budgets/accessing funds
Rights Under the Fair Chance Act:
Applicants are encouraged to inquire about their rights under the Fair Chance Act. If you have questions regarding our hiring practices please contact emailprotected.
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 100% company-paid medical dental and vision plans unlimited Flexible Time Off 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 were not just building a business; were cultivating a community that values creativity collaboration and the transformative power of play.
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About Company
Find out how you can launch, monetize and scale your video games worldwide, with no upfront costs, using Xsolla's comprehensive suite of tools and services.
