Senior Backend Engineer (Go)
Baku · 2+ years experience · Full-time · Onsite · Posted Oct 16, 2026
At a glance
- Experience
- 2+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Baku
About Xsolla
- 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.
- The duties and responsibilities of this position may evolve over time to support the organization’s goals and individual growth. This job description is intended to outline the general nature and level of work being performed and is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required. By submitting your application, you consent to Xsolla conducting background checks, where permitted by law, after the final interview stage. All checks will comply with local regulations, and your information will be handled confidentially. Xsolla takes your privacy seriously and will not sell or externally distribute any personal data received during the hiring process. In accordance with applicable data protection laws, Xsolla is committed to protecting your personal information and respecting your privacy.
- For any inquiries related to data privacy, please contact: careers@xsolla.com
- Explore more opportunities at: https://xsolla.com/careers
- - Build and ship reliable, secure and scalable backend services in Go.
About the role
- The Senior Backend Engineer will design, build, and maintain scalable backend services using Go to support a global commerce platform for video game developers.
- This role involves owning features from design to deployment, managing identity flows, and utilizing AI-assisted development tools to enhance engineering efficiency.
- The engineer will collaborate across teams to deliver secure APIs and SDKs while mentoring others and improving overall system architecture.
Responsibilities
- Build and ship reliable, secure and scalable backend services in Go.
- Own features from design to deployment, with attention to maintainability, security and performance.
- Design and build APIs and SDKs used by Business Account frontends, microfrontends and other Xsolla teams.
- Build and maintain identity flows such as user creation, login, MFA, SSO and token validation.
- Design multi-tenant services with clear data isolation and per-account configuration.
- Take part in architecture discussions and write or review ADRs.
- Refactor legacy code to improve structure and efficiency.
- Own production readiness with Datadog, including dashboards, monitors, alerts, and incident response.
- Use AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor daily to design, build, test and refactor code.
- Mentor engineers and provide constructive code reviews.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience.
- 2+ years of hands-on Go experience in production.
- Strong experience with PostgreSQL and/or MySQL, including schema design and query performance.
- Experience designing and building REST APIs.
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.
- Experience with message brokers such as RabbitMQ or Kafka.
- Comfortable with Git and CI/CD pipelines.
- Solid understanding of authentication and authorization basics: OAuth2, JWT, sessions and tokens.
- Hands-on experience with observability tools, ideally Datadog.
- Good written and spoken English.
Preferred qualifications
- gRPC experience
- GitLab CI/CD experience
- Google Cloud Platform experience
- Working knowledge of React
- Experience building scalable, secure login or identity platforms
- Deep knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, MFA, and session and token management
- Experience with OpenTelemetry, SLOs and error budgets
- Experience setting up AI workflows for a team
Skills
- Go
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- REST APIs
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Helm
- RabbitMQ
- Kafka
- Git
- Datadog
- OAuth2
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- JWT
- Claude Code
- Cursor
