Senior Backend Developer, Go

September 15

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Xsolla

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Gaming • eCommerce • SaaS

Xsolla is a company specializing in game commerce solutions. It provides tools and services that empower video game developers to monetize, distribute, and fund their games, helping them to increase revenue at any stage of development. Xsolla offers a wide range of solutions such as customizable web shops, payment processing, fraud prevention, and social packages to enhance player engagement. With over 19 years of experience in the video game industry, Xsolla collaborates with developers and publishers globally to manage compliance, taxes, and operational complexities, allowing them to focus on connecting with their players. Their services are designed to work with popular game development platforms like Unity, Unreal, and Cocos Creator, supporting a wide array of local payment methods worldwide.

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2005

🎮 Gaming

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

📋 Description

• Build and ship reliable, secure, and scalable backend systems across the platform. • Own implementation from design to deployment, ensuring maintainability and performance. • Participate in architectural discussions and offer informed technical input. • Refactor legacy codebases to improve structure and efficiency while maintaining feature continuity. • Drive production readiness by handling incident response, root cause analysis, and improving observability. • Write clear, testable, and well-documented code; participate in code reviews and design discussions. • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and other engineers to align on objectives and deliverables. • Contribute to technical scoping, estimation, and identify opportunities to reduce technical debt. • Deliver developer-friendly APIs, SDKs, and integration documentation (where applicable).

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering. • 2+ years of hands-on experience with Go (Golang) in production environments. • Strong experience working with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL. • Proficient with containerization and orchestration tools: Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), and Helm. • Familiarity with messaging systems like RabbitMQ or Kafka. • Comfortable using Git and CI/CD tooling in collaborative workflows. • Working knowledge of frontend technologies, especially React and/or Next.js. • Basic understanding of cloud platforms (GCP preferred). • Strong English communicator, for both technical and non-technical topics. • Experience designing multi-tenant identity systems and knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT (preferred).