Xsolla

Middle/Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

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15 days ago
Baku, AzerbaijanMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship reliable, secure, and scalable backend systems.
  • Own implementation from design through deployment, with attention to maintainability and performance.
  • Participate in architectural 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 and estimation for features and infrastructure work.
  • Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve developer experience.

Requirements

  • Hands-on production experience with Go (Golang).
  • Strong experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL.
  • Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
  • Familiarity with RabbitMQ or Kafka.
  • Comfort using Git in collaborative workflows.
  • Working knowledge of React and/or Next.js.
  • Basic understanding of cloud platforms, with GCP preferred.
  • Experience building scalable, secure Login-as-a-Service platforms is a differentiator.
  • Knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT, session and token management, social login, SSO, and federated identity is a differentiator.
  • Experience designing multi-tenant identity systems and delivering developer-friendly APIs, SDKs, and integration documentation is a differentiator.
  • 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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