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Tech Lead - DevX & AI

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xsolla logoXsolla · Montreal, Canada
Full-timeRemote1mo ago
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Xsolla is a global payments and commerce platform for the games industry, used by thousands of publishers to monetize, distribute, and operate their titles worldwide. Shop Builder is Xsolla's storefront platform - used by publishers and game developers to launch and operate game shops, from straightforward catalog and webshops to fully custom storefronts built headless on our backend. For more information, visit xsolla.com. The DevX and AI team owns the public APIs, documentation, and AI features that give developers - and AI agents - the full surface they need to customize and extend Shop Builder. This is a net-new team of seven, standing up to fill a real gap: no dedicated team has owned the developer surface end to end. That changes now.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a tech lead, staff, or senior lead role driving delivery across a team.
  • Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js, with experience shipping production APIs, CLIs, or SDKs to external developers.
  • Hands-on experience building CLI tools and developer-facing workflows: command design, config file formats, local dev loops, deploy commands, and error messages that actually help.
  • Solid understanding of REST API design principles, SDK ergonomics, and what makes a developer experience work - you have strong opinions and can back them up.
  • Practical familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or agentic tool-use patterns: you understand how AI agents consume tool interfaces and what makes a tool reliable for an LLM.
  • Experience coordinating across multiple engineering teams to ship features that depend on inbound capabilities you don't own.
  • Proven ability to lead engineers: clear technical direction, raising the quality bar through reviews, developing other engineers' skills.
  • Cloud-native experience: CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and deployment automation on AWS or GCP.
  • Strong communication skills - you translate technical complexity into clear status for leadership, and technical requirements into actionable work for your team.

Benefits

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with the Fair Chance Act.Criminal History Consideration:For this role, we will conduct a background check that may include the following:Criminal history checkEmployment verificationEducation verificationRelevance to Job Responsibilities:The background check is relevant to this position because of the following role responsibilities:Accessing confidential company dataEnsuring compliance with regulatory requirementsHandling sensitive financial information/managing budgets/accessing fundsRights Under the Fair Chance Act:Applicants are encouraged to inquire about their rights under the Fair Chance Act. If you have questions regarding our hiring practices, please contact careers@xsolla.com.

Additional Information

ABOUT YOU We are looking for a Tech Lead to drive delivery and cross-team coordination for the Shop Builder DevX and AI team. You are the bridge between architecture and execution: you take the technical direction set by the Principal Engineer and turn it into a running, shipping team. You lead a squad of three engineers building the developer surface that Shop Builder is missing - MCP server, CLI, SDK, documentation pipeline, local dev environment, deploy and versioning path. You set the delivery cadence, remove blockers, coordinate inbound dependencies from payments, auth, live ops, and catalog, and own the quality of what ships. This is a hands-on role. You write production code, lead code reviews, and drive technical decisions within your domain. You also have the seniority and judgment to coordinate across teams and represent the team's work to engineering leadership.

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