Backend Engineer (Go)

ABOUT YOU

You will play a pivotal role in delivering high-impact software solutions across our platform. You bring curiosity, initiative, and a passion for clean, scalable systems. You collaborate effectively with teammates and cross-functional partners to design, build, and improve our technical stack. You’re hands-on, deeply engaged in the code, and consistently seeking better ways to solve complex engineering challenges.

ABOUT US

Xsolla is a global commerce company with robust tools and services to help developers solve the inherent challenges of the video game industry. From indie to AAA, companies partner with Xsolla to help them fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games. Grounded in the belief in the future of video games, Xsolla is resolute in the mission to bring opportunities together, and continually make new resources available to creators. Headquartered and incorporated in Los Angeles, California, Xsolla operates as the merchant of record and has helped over 1,500+ game developers to reach more players and grow their businesses around the world. With more paths to profits and ways to win, developers have all the things needed to enjoy the game.

For more information, visit xsolla.com.

Responsibilities

Software Engineering & Problem Solving:

• Build and ship reliable, secure, and scalable backend systems.
• Own implementation from design to deployment, ensuring maintainability and performance.
• Participate in architectural discussions and offer informed technical input.
• Refactor legacy codebases to improve structure and efficiency while maintaining feature
• continuity.
• Drive production readiness by handling incident response, root cause analysis, and
• observability improvements.

Technical Excellence:

• Write clear, testable, and well-documented code, emphasizing quality and automation.
• Contribute to a culture of engineering excellence through code reviews and design
• discussions.
• Advocate for sound software development practices and continuous improvement.

Collaboration & Impact:

• Work closely with product managers, designers, and other engineers to align on objectives
• and deliverables.
• Contribute to technical scoping and estimation for features and infrastructure work.
• Identify opportunities to reduce technical debt and improve the developer experience.

Qualifications & Skills

• 6+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Go (Golang) in production environments.
• Strong experience working with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL.
• Proficient with containerization and orchestration tools: Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), and
• Helm.
• Familiarity with messaging systems like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
• Comfortable using Git and CI/CD tooling in collaborative workflows.
• Working knowledge of frontend technologies, especially React and/or Next.js.
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms (GCP preferred).

Nice to Have:

• Experience building scalable, secure Login-as-a-Service platforms.
• Deep knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT, and session/token management.
• Strong grasp of social login, SSO, and federated identity.
• Designed multi-tenant identity systems with isolation and configurability.
• Delivered developer-friendly APIs, SDKs, and integration documentation.
• Strong English communicator, for both technical and non-technical topics.