Hybrid Senior Backend Engineer

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About the role

  • Senior Backend Engineer building reliable and scalable backend systems for Xsolla, a global commerce company in the gaming industry. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to enhance developers' experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Build and ship reliable, secure, and scalable backend systems.
  • Own implementation from design to deployment, ensuring maintainability, security, and performance.
  • Participate in architectural discussions and provide informed technical input.
  • Refactor legacy codebases to improve structure and efficiency while maintaining feature continuity.
  • Drive production readiness by managing incident response, root cause analysis, and observability improvements.
  • Write clear, testable, and well-documented code, emphasizing quality and automation.
  • Contribute to code reviews and design discussions, promoting engineering excellence.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product managers, designers, and engineers to align on objectives and deliverables.
  • Contribute to technical scoping and estimation for features and infrastructure work.
  • Identify and reduce technical debt, continuously improving the developer experience

Requirements

  • 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 like RabbitMQ or Kafka.
  • Comfortable using Git and CI/CD pipelines in collaborative workflows.
  • Working knowledge of frontend technologies, especially React and/or Next.js.
  • Basic understanding of cloud platforms (Google Cloud Platform preferred).

Benefits

  • Convenient work tools
  • Latest Mac workplaces + additional hardware to make you more effective at work
  • Google Chat, Gmail, Google Drive, Confluence, Jira, GitLab
  • Professional growth
  • Free trainings and participation in specialized conferences
  • Rich knowledge exchange within the company
  • Health insurance (Medical, dental and optical)- Employee and dependants
  • Flexible hours: organize your day according to your needs and sprint & teamwork demands
  • No dress code
  • Comfortable and new office environment

Job title

Senior Backend Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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