Xsolla
Tech Lead — DevX & AI
Montreal · Principal
Sponsorship not specifiedCAD 130k-CAD 150kDetected 68 days ago
JavaScriptTypeScriptReactNode.jsCode ReviewAWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDAPI DevelopmentRESTLLMsAgentic AIDesign SystemsAgileCadenceLeadershipCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- sprint planning, technical grooming, retrospectives, and status visibility to engineering and business leadership.
- testing strategy, observability, deployment practices, and documentation quality.
- Contribute to hiring by conducting technical interviews and defining what great looks like for the engineers joining this team.
Responsibilities
- Drive the delivery of the Shop Builder developer surface: MCP server, CLI and local dev environment, public SDK, documentation pipeline, sandbox and preview environments, deploy and versioning path.
- Lead and mentor a team of three engineers - setting technical direction within the squad, running code reviews, and ensuring consistent engineering quality.
- Own cross-team coordination: identify and pull inbound API capabilities from payments, auth, live ops, and catalog teams
- manage integration timelines.
- Partner with the Principal Engineer to translate architecture decisions into sprint-level execution plans and realistic timelines.
- Collaborate with the PO on roadmap sequencing, scope decisions, and trade-offs between speed and correctness.
- Own the team's delivery rhythm: sprint planning, technical grooming, retrospectives, and status visibility to engineering and business leadership.
- Define and maintain the team's engineering standards: testing strategy, observability, deployment practices, and documentation quality.
- Act as the primary technical contact for integrations with headless partners and the MIT professional services team during early partner onboarding.
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- If you have questions regarding our hiring practices, please contact careers@xsolla.com.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js, with experience shipping production APIs, CLIs, or SDKs to external developers.
Nice to have
- Experience in game tech, digital commerce, storefront platforms, or headless architecture.
- Familiarity with LLM-generated code evaluation: assessing whether an AI-produced block, component, or layout is correct and safe to ship.
- Prior experience standing up a greenfield team from scratch and knowing what that demands.
- Exposure to documentation-as-code workflows and toolchains that publish to multiple surfaces from a single source of truth.
Skills
- Practical familiarity with the
- CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and deployment automation on AWS or GCP.
Compensation
- CAD 130k-CAD 150k
Benefits
- This includes medical, dental, and vision, PTO, and a personalized career roadmap for each employee.
- By investing in professional development through training and educational opportunities, we ensure that our team thrives both personally and professionally.
- We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- Education verification
Company info
- 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.
- Qualifications & Skills
Equal opportunity
- Xsolla is an equal opportunity employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
- We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in accordance with the Fair Chance Act.
- Criminal History Consideration:
This listing is sourced directly from Xsolla's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.