backend developer in video game commerce

Xsolla is a global commerce company that provides tools and services to help video game developers fund, distribute, market, and monetize their games. It operates as the merchant of record and has helped more than 1,500 game developers reach more players and grow their businesses.

• Build and ship reliable, secure, and scalable backend systems
• Own implementation from design to deployment, ensuring maintainability and performance
• Participate in architectural discussions and provide informed technical input
• Refactor legacy codebases to improve structure and efficiency while maintaining feature continuity
• Handle incident response, root cause analysis, and observability improvements to drive production readiness
• Write clear, testable, and well-documented code, emphasizing quality and automation
• Contribute to engineering excellence through code reviews and design discussions
• Advocate for sound software development practices and continuous improvement
• 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

• 6+ Years of professional experience in software engineering
• 2+ Years of hands-on experience with Go (Golang) in production environments
• Strong experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL
• Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes (K8s), and Helm
• Familiarity with messaging systems such as 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
• Strong English communication skills for technical and non-technical topics
• Будет плюсом: GCP, experience building scalable and secure Login-as-a-Service platforms, OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, JWT, session/token management, social login, SSO, federated identity, multi-tenant identity systems, developer-friendly APIs, SDKs, integration documentation

• On-site position in Baku, Azerbaijan