27 days ago
Baku, AzerbaijanSenior
Responsibilities
- Build and ship reliable, secure, and scalable backend services in Go.
- Own features from design through deployment, focusing on maintainability, security, and performance.
- Design and build APIs and SDKs for Business Account frontends, microfrontends, and other Xsolla teams.
- Build and maintain identity flows including user creation, login, MFA, SSO, and token validation.
- Design multi-tenant services with data isolation and per-account configuration.
- Participate in architecture discussions and write or review architecture decision records.
- Refactor legacy code, improve developer experience, and reduce technical debt.
- Own production readiness using Datadog dashboards, monitors, alerts, APM, tracing, log analysis, incident response, and root cause analysis.
- Write clear, testable, documented code and support quality and automation.
- Use AI coding tools in daily development and help establish practices for reviewing AI-generated code.
- Collaborate with product, frontend, design, and platform teams on end-to-end delivery.
- Contribute to technical scoping and estimation, mentor engineers, and provide code reviews.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 2+ years of hands-on production experience with Go.
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL, including schema design and query performance.
- Experience designing and building REST APIs; gRPC experience is a plus.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
- Experience with message brokers such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
- Comfort with Git and CI/CD pipelines, with GitLab preferred.
- Understanding of OAuth2, JWT, sessions, and tokens for authentication and authorization.
- Hands-on experience with observability tools, ideally Datadog, including metrics, logs, APM/traces, and alerting.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding assistants and reviewing, testing, and correcting their output.
- Basic understanding of cloud platforms, with Google Cloud Platform preferred.
- Working knowledge of frontend technologies, especially React.
- Strong written and spoken English and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred qualifications include experience with Login-as-a-Service, OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, MFA, social login, SSO, federated identity, multi-tenant identity systems, developer-friendly APIs and SDKs, OpenTelemetry, SLOs, error budgets, B2B platforms, partner portals, marketplaces, and team AI workflows.
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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.