Xsolla

Middle/Senior Backend Engineer (Go)

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23 days ago
Baku, AzerbaijanMid Level / Senior

Responsibilities

  • Build, ship, and maintain reliable, secure, and scalable backend systems.
  • Own implementations from design through deployment, with attention to maintainability and performance.
  • Participate in architecture, technical scoping, estimation, code reviews, and design discussions.
  • Refactor legacy code and improve technical debt, developer experience, observability, and production readiness.
  • Handle incident response and root cause analysis.
  • Collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to deliver features and infrastructure work.
  • Develop developer-friendly APIs, SDKs, and integration documentation.

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 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, secure Login-as-a-Service platforms is a differentiator.
  • Knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT, session and token management, social login, SSO, federated identity, and multi-tenant identity systems is a differentiator.
  • Experience delivering APIs, SDKs, and integration documentation, plus strong English communication skills, is a differentiator.
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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