Team Lead

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.

We are looking for a Team Lead who is passionate about building and leading teams that create cutting-edge blockchain infrastructure to join our Xsolla ZK team. The best candidate will be someone who thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and exceptionally dynamic setting and is excited to lead a team of backend engineers developing Web3 products while maintaining hands-on technical contribution.

Strong backend development expertise in Go combined with leadership skills are essential, along with experience in building high-load distributed systems and managing engineering teams. The ability to balance technical excellence with people development and delivery predictability will be key to your success in this role.

If you're passionate about growing engineering talent while shipping world-class blockchain products and love shaping the technical direction of next-generation gaming infrastructure, we would love to hear from you!

• Team of up to 8 backend engineers

• Ownership of one or more service domains within the Web3 ecosystem

• Direct collaboration with Product, Frontend, Blockchain/Solidity, and DevOps teams

• Lead and mentor a team of up to 8 backend engineers

• Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development conversations

• Hire and onboard new team members

• Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning

• Manage team workload and ensure sustainable delivery pace

• Own team's delivery predictability and sprint commitments

• Collaborate with Product to refine requirements and estimate work

• Report on team progress, risks, and blockers to stakeholders

• Continuously improve development processes and team efficiency

Technical Skills:

• 5+ years of commercial experience with Go (or 7+ years with other backend languages with Go proficiency)

• Strong expertise in distributed systems and microservices architecture

• Deep knowledge of MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis

• Experience with message queues (NATS, RabbitMQ, Kafka)

• Solid understanding of API design (REST, WebSocket, gRPC)

• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines

• Experience with ZK Stack / ZKsync Era:

• EraVM execution model and differences from EVM, native Account Abstraction on zkSync-family chains

• System contracts (ContractDeployer, NonceHolder, etc.)

• L1↔L2 communication, bridging, and finality/reorg behavior

• Deeper Account Abstraction & smart wallet exposure:

• Modular account standards (ERC-7579 / ERC-6900) and experience building on/extending implementations (Safe, Kernel, Biconomy, Coinbase Smart Wallet, or equivalent)

• Session keys and delegated permissions (ERC-7710 / ERC-7715)

• Signature schemes: EIP-712, ERC-1271, WebAuthn/passkey, and wallet-facing standards (EIP-1193, EIP-6963, EIP-5792, ERC-7677)

• Familiarity with AA infrastructure providers (Sequence, thirdweb, Privy, Dynamic, Turnkey, Pimlico, Alchemy, ZeroDev, Safe{Core}) and views on build-versus-buy trade-offs

• Exposure to key management: HSM, MPC/threshold signing, social recovery or guardian-based recovery

• Knowledge of smart contract development (Solidity basics, security patterns) and wallet threat modeling (signature phishing, replay, paymaster griefing)

• Experience with blockchain event processing: event scanning, reorg handling, webhooks

• Background in gaming or fintech industries with high-load systems

• Experience with remote team management

• Onboard and understand the codebase, architecture, and team dynamics

• Establish regular 1:1s and team rituals

• Deliver at least one significant feature or improvement

• Improve team's delivery predictability and code quality metrics

• Identify and address technical debt in key areas

• Develop career growth plans for all team members

• Team consistently delivers on commitments with high quality

• Measurable improvement in system performance and reliability

• Team members show clear growth and development

• Location: Remote (worldwide)

• Employment Type: Full-time

• Schedule: 10:00–19:00 (flexible)

• Contract: Employment agreement (entity or EOR arranged per candidate location)

Xsolla is dedicated to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, language, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, political beliefs, disability, age, marital status, social background or other characteristics.

We are committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

If you have questions regarding our hiring practices, please contact careers@xsolla.com.

For more vacancies, visit: xsolla.com/careers