Xsolla
Tech Lead – Frontend Platform Team
Montreal
Sponsorship not specifiedCAD 130k-CAD 150kDetected 230 days ago
TypeScriptReactwebpackViteNode.jsGitMongoDBCI/CDGraphQLRESTIncident ResponseUI DesignDesign SystemsAccessibilityCypressPlaywrightJestTest AutomationLeadershipCollaboration
About the role
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Coach, mentor, and manage a team of ~8 developers, supporting professional growth and maintaining a strong engineering culture.
- Partner closely with the other Tech Leads working on the same platform to ensure architectural alignment, consistent standards, and unified decision-making.
- Drive modernization, refactoring, and performance enhancements to keep the platform scalable, maintainable, and aligned with product goals.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and platform teams to deliver cohesive partner-facing experiences.
- Own operational excellence, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
- Together, we're not just building a business
- For the Tech Lead - Frontend Platform Team, we will conduct a background check that may include the following:
- Together, we're not just building a business; we're cultivating a community that values creativity, collaboration, and the transformative power of play.
Requirements
- This role combines deep engineering expertise with people leadership, guiding a team of approximately eight developers.
- 8+ years of software development experience with strong expertise in modern frontend engineering at scale.
- Strong understanding of modern styling systems and theming approaches (vanilla-extract, styled-components, design tokens).
- 8+ years of software development experience with strong expertise in modern frontend engineering at scale. At least 3 years in a similar tech lead role.
- Proven ability to lead engineers, own architectural decisions, and manage delivery for complex platform projects.
Nice to have
- Experience with react-native/mobile experience
- Knowledge of performance optimization strategies for client-side and server-side rendering.
- Familiarity with event-driven UI flows, real-time interfaces, or edge-rendering strategies.
- Background improving developer platforms, observability stacks, or performance monitoring systems.
- Comfort with UI-as-data approaches and leveraging AI-assisted/no-code tooling to accelerate feature delivery.
Skills
- Deep hands-on knowledge of React including component architecture, SSR patterns, RSC, and complex UI data flows.
- Proficiency with Node.js and MongoDB for server-side functionality.
- Solid TypeScript practices, including strict typing, shared contracts, and schema validation (Zod or equivalent).
- Experience with Module Federation
- Good understanding of bundling and compilation, experience with webpack/rollup/vite/esbuild.
- Experience with automated testing frameworks (Vitest/Jest) and end-to-end testing (Playwright/Cypress).
- Good understanding of backend integration patterns (REST, GraphQL, RPC-style APIs).
- Experience with CI/CD workflows (GitLab CI or similar), private registries, and secure artifact handling.
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 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.
- For more information, visit xsolla.com.
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.