Tech Lead – Frontend Platform Team

🕒 December 5, 2025

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Xsolla

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2005

🎮 Gaming

🛍️ eCommerce

☁️ SaaS

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.

📋 Description

• 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 platform’s 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 Node.js 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision plans • Unlimited Flexible Time Off • Personalized career roadmap for each employee • Investment in professional development through training and educational opportunities