(Senior)Backend Engineer (Golang)

Xsolla is an international payment services company, providing game developers and publishers with payment, billing, distribution, and marketing tools. Headquartered in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California.

Location: Shanghai
Company size: 500–1,000
Posted: 1mo ago
Via: Lever

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(Senior)Backend Engineer (Golang) · Xsolla

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Job title: (Senior)Backend Engineer (Golang)
Job location: Shanghai
Job listing URL: https://jobs.lever.co/xsolla/d1979d33-edb3-4668-bb23-2801615484d5
Job description: 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.

ABOUT YOU
We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer who is systems-minded, detail-oriented, and passionate about building scalable infrastructure to join our Platform Engineering team. The best candidate will be someone who thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and exceptionally dynamic setting and is excited to design and own the server-side architecture of a white-label game distribution platform, tackling challenges in multi-tenancy, large-file delivery, and high-concurrency systems.

Strong command of GoLang and solid experience in microservices and distributed systems are essential, along with experience in building backend services for content distribution, app stores, or gaming platforms. The ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and drive technical decisions on performance, security, and observability will be key to your success in this role.

If you’re passionate about building robust, high-performance backend systems that power game distribution at scale and love solving complex infrastructure problems in the gaming ecosystem, we would love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain the backend services for the game distribution platform, with a highly available and scalable server-side architecture

Design and implement a multi-tenant architecture supporting data isolation

Design and implement the storage and delivery solution for large game files (object storage / CDN, signed download URLs, resumable downloads, version management)

Build backend APIs and permission systems for the operations admin panel and publisher portal

Design and deliver the search solution (e.g., Elasticsearch) to power full-text search and filtering of games

Ensure system performance, concurrency, security, and observability (monitoring, logging, alerting)

Game industry experience required

On-site position only (remote work not available)

Requirements

Degree in Computer Science or a related field, with 5+ years of backend development experience

Strong command of GoLang

Proficiency with AI coding tools (Claude Code, Gemini, etc.)

Solid RESTful API design skills; familiar with microservice architecture

Familiar with relational database (MySQL/PostgreSQL) design and optimization; knowledge of NoSQL (Redis, etc.)

Familiar with message queues (Kafka/RabbitMQ), caching, and other middleware

Solid engineering fundamentals: coding standards, unit testing, Git, CI/CD

Nice to have

Understanding of the Chinese gaming industry and experience in Chinese game building, publishing, or operation on major Chinese gaming platforms

Experience in backend development for games or game platforms

Familiarity with server-side integration of game SDKs (accounts, in-app purchases, real-name verification)

Familiarity with in-app purchase (IAP), virtual goods, and order management

Experience with multi-tenant SaaS / white-label platform architecture

Familiarity with Elasticsearch

Experience designing and optimizing high-concurrency, high-traffic systems

Experience with app stores or content/game distribution platforms

Knowledge of object storage and CDN, with experience in or awareness of large-file / high-concurrency delivery

Note: Less experienced candidate could be considered as middle-level developer.