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This role requires deep fintech and payments experience, strong understanding of Anti-Fraud Systems (AFS), and the ability to lead engineers building high-throughput, low-latency, decision-critical systems.\nYou will work closely with Product, Data Science, Risk Operations, Compliance, and Platform teams to design and evolve fraud detection, prevention, and investigation capabilities at global scale.\nABOUT US\nXsolla 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. 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With more paths to profits and ways to win, developers have all the things needed to enjoy the game.\nFor more information, visit xsolla.com.\nResponsibilities:\nTechnical Leadership & Architecture\nOwn the technical vision and architecture of Xsolla’s anti-fraud platform and services.\nDesign scalable, resilient systems for real-time transaction risk scoring, rule engines, and decision workflows.\nLead architectural decisions around AFS integrations, internal fraud engines, and third-party providers.\nEnsure systems meet performance, reliability, security, and compliance requirements.\nFraud & Fintech Domain Leadership\nTranslate fraud and risk requirements into robust technical solutions.\nPartner with Risk, Payments, and Compliance teams on: Transaction monitoring, Chargeback reduction, AML / KYC-adjacent workflows (where applicable), and Regulatory and scheme requirements (Visa, Mastercard, etc.)\nEvaluate and evolve fraud strategies across: Card-not-present transactions, 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