Xsolla

Backend Engineer (Go)

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1 month ago
Baku, AzerbaijanSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship reliable, secure, and scalable backend systems.
  • Own software implementation from design through deployment, focusing on maintainability and performance.
  • Participate in architecture discussions and provide technical input.
  • Refactor legacy code while maintaining feature continuity.
  • Handle incident response, root cause analysis, production readiness, and observability improvements.
  • Write clear, testable, and documented code and contribute to code reviews and design discussions.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers on objectives and deliverables.
  • Contribute to technical scoping, estimation, technical-debt reduction, and developer-experience improvements.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
  • 2+ years of hands-on production experience with Go.
  • Strong experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL.
  • Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
  • Familiarity with RabbitMQ or Kafka.
  • Comfort using Git and CI/CD tooling in collaborative workflows.
  • Working knowledge of React and/or Next.js.
  • Basic understanding of cloud platforms, with GCP preferred.
  • Experience with scalable Login-as-a-Service platforms is valued.
  • Knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT, session and token management, social login, SSO, federated identity, and multi-tenant identity systems is valued.
  • Experience delivering developer-friendly APIs, SDKs, and integration documentation is valued.
  • Strong English communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
Xsolla

About Xsolla

1,001-5,000 employees

Xsolla builds commerce and monetization infrastructure for video games, offering payment processing, merchant-of-record services, storefronts, subscriptions, and anti-fraud tools for developers and publishers. The privately held company, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Sherman Oaks, California, supports direct-to-consumer sales and global tax/compliance across many regions and payment methods. Its platform targets studios from indie to AAA and powers distribution, marketing, and in-game purchases.

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