Senior Backend Engineer

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🇷🇺 Russia – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Xsolla

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Marketing • Logistics

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.

📋 Description

• Design and build REST and gRPC services and APIs for authentication, account management, and wallet operations • Own backend services end to end, including design, implementation, release, production operation, and on-call • Define service boundaries, integration contracts, and data ownership across services • Design data models and storage; optimize schemas and queries • Build event-driven and asynchronous workflows • Own observability through metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting • Participate in on-call, incident response, and post-mortems • Improve CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, testing, and the engineering environment • Review code • Set up and maintain AI tooling in repositories • Make and document architectural decisions through RFCs or ADRs • Collaborate with product managers, designers, backend and frontend engineers, QA, and DevOps • Support Xsolla ID identity/authentication and Xsolla ZK Web3 wallet infrastructure products

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of commercial backend development experience • Go: idiomatic code, concurrency with goroutines, channels, context and cancellation; memory and performance profiling with pprof • Relational databases including PostgreSQL and MySQL: schema design, indexes, query plans, transactions and isolation levels, and safe migrations • Redis caching, including invalidation and consistency trade-offs • Service architecture and distributed-systems trade-offs, including consistency, availability, idempotency, retries, and failure modes • Asynchronous messaging and event-driven design using Kafka, RabbitMQ, or NATS • REST and gRPC API design, including versioning, backward compatibility, OpenAPI/Swagger, and Protobuf • Application security, including OWASP Top 10, secrets management, and safe handling of user data • Server-side OAuth 2.0/OIDC, including flows, tokens, and sessions • Docker and Kubernetes for deploying and debugging services • Observability using Datadog or comparable tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/Graylog, or OpenTelemetry • Unit, integration, and contract testing • Git and CI/CD, including GitLab CI or similar • Daily hands-on use of AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, including repository configuration • Ability to read technical documentation in English

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision benefits • Paid time off (PTO) • Personalized career roadmap • Professional development through training and educational opportunities • Flexible schedule • Remote work worldwide • Employment agreement with entity or EOR arranged per candidate location