Senior Backend Engineer
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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 Senior Backend Engineer who is detail-oriented proactive and highly collaborative to join our Engineering team. The best candidate will be someone who thrives in a fast-paced highly collaborative and exceptionally dynamic setting and is excited to design and build scalable backend systems drive architectural improvements and deliver resilient high-performance services in production environments.
Strong technical expertise in Go distributed systems and microservices architecture is essential along with experience in building and operating cloud-native applications in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes. The ability to troubleshoot complex production issues optimize system performance and manage event-driven architectures using Kafka or similar streaming platforms will be key to your success in this role.
If youre passionate about building reliable scalable systems that power high-impact products and love creating seamless infrastructure that enables innovative payment gaming or commerce experiences we would love to hear from you!
Responsibilities
- Design build and maintain backend services that power core products and platforms.
- Develop event-driven systems using Go and Kafka.
- Build scalable microservices in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
- Drive architecture decisions that improve performance resiliency and maintainability.
- Collaborate with engineers product managers designers and QA to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Own your code in production monitor debug and continuously improve service performance and reliability.
- Write automated tests and follow CI/CD best practices to ensure high-quality deployments.
- Participate in code reviews technical discussions and knowledge sharing across teams.
- Participate in on-call rotation to support production systems and respond to incidents.
Qualifications & Skills
- 5 years of backend development experience in Go or a similar language.
- Strong understanding of microservices architecture distributed systems and event-based communication.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes Docker).
- Solid understanding of observability monitoring and performance optimization.
- Ability to troubleshoot production issues analyze system behavior and drive resolution.
Nice to Have
- Background in gaming payments or commerce systems.
- Experience in adtech or offer monetization platforms.
- Hands-on experience with Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms.
- Experience with Redis or other in-memory data stores.
- Experience with cloud platforms (e.g. AWS GCP or Azure).
- Familiarity with ClickHouse Postgres or other analytical/OLAP/OLTP databases.
- Prior experience working on internal platforms or developer-facing tools.
$140000 - $160000 a year
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 Lead Software Engineer (Mobile Native) 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
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process such as reviewing applications analyzing resumes or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed please contact us.
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Senior IC
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- Business Intelligence
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- Account Development
- Content Development
- Lab Testing
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.
