15 hours ago
Tokyo, JapanSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain backend services powering core products and platforms.
- Develop event-driven systems using Go and Kafka.
- Build scalable microservices with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Drive architecture decisions that improve performance, resiliency, and maintainability.
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and QA on end-to-end solutions.
- Own production services by monitoring, debugging, and improving performance and reliability.
- Write automated tests and follow CI/CD practices for high-quality deployments.
- Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, knowledge sharing, and an on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 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, including Kubernetes and Docker.
- Understanding of observability, monitoring, and performance optimization.
- Ability to troubleshoot production issues, analyze system behavior, and drive resolution.
- Business-level proficiency in Japanese is required.
- Preferred experience includes gaming, payments, commerce systems, adtech, offer monetization, Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms, Redis, AWS, GCP, Azure, ClickHouse, Postgres, internal platforms, or developer-facing tools.
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About Xsolla
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.