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From Xsolla's posting. “We” and “our” refer to the employer.
ABOUT
XSOLLA
Xsolla is a global video game commerce company headquartered in Los Angeles. It helps developers from indie to AAA fund, distribute, market and monetize their games, and acts as merchant of record for 1,500+ developers worldwide. For more information, visit xsolla
.com.
The role: We are hiring a
Software Engineer, Web3 for Xsolla
ZK, Xsolla
's Web3 ecosystem on a zkSync-based L2. It includes:
smart wallets built on account abstraction; SDKs that game studios and partners use to bring players on-chain; infrastructure backend services for tokenizing in-game items and currencies; ecosystem dApps: a DEX
, an NFT marketplace and an auction.
This is a senior fullstack role: you work across backend, frontend and smart contracts.
WHAT YOU WILL OWN
Features end to end: backend, frontend and production
The on-chain / off-chain architecture of your product: what lives in contracts, what lives in services, and how the two stay consistent. You make these decisions and justify them in writing
Security and correctness of what you ship: signing flows, interactions with contracts that hold user assets, keys and secrets
Production operation of your services, as part of the team's on-call rotation
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Build backend services in Go and TypeScript: chain indexing, transaction relaying, event processing, APIs for dApps and SDKs
- Build infrastructure backend services for tokenizing in-game items and currencies
- Build dApp frontends in React: wallet connection, transaction signing, on-chain state in the UI
- Integrate smart wallets into products: accounts, paymasters, bundlers
- Develop SDKs used by game studios and partners
- Monitor services and contracts in production and take part in on-call
- Review code
- Set up and maintain AI tooling in the repositories (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor: rules, context, harness) so the team uses it effectively
- Required: Experience
- 5+ years of commercial software development, with senior-level production experience across backend and frontend dApps that you shipped to production and maintained
- Web3 libraries and wallets viem and wagmi in production: clients and transports, contract reads and writes with typed ABIs, event subscriptions, wagmi hooks and connectors, caching and invalidation of on-chain state
- How wallet signers work: EOAs, browser and embedded wallets, smart accounts; personal_sign (EIP-191) and typed data (EIP-712); the EIP-1193 provider; network switching
- Hands-on experience with smart wallets: UserOperations, gas sponsored via paymasters, signature validation for contract accounts (ERC-1271)
- Backend
- Go and TypeScript (Node.js) for production services
- Processing on-chain events: idempotency, reorg handling, retries
- Asynchronous messaging and event-driven design (Kafka, RabbitMQ or
- NATS
- ): delivery guarantees, ordering, reprocessing
- Relational databases (PostgreSQL) and caching (Redis)
- Designing REST and gRPC APIs: versioning, backward compatibility
- Frontend
- React and TypeScript: rendering model, state management, performance
- Web security fundamentals: XSS, CSRF, CSP
- , safe handling of signatures and keys in the browser
- Smart contracts
- Reading and understanding Solidity contracts and the EVM
- (storage, gas, call semantics, proxy upgrade patterns, access control) well enough to integrate with them safely and review changes
- Common contract vulnerability classes (reentrancy, front-running /
- MEV
- , oracle manipulation, signature replay) and how they affect the off-chain side
- Operations
- Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) at the level of deploying and debugging your own services
- Observability (we use Datadog; experience with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK / Graylog or OpenTelemetry also counts): metrics, logs, tracing and alerting for services and contracts; diagnosing incidents in production
- Engineering practices
- Testing: unit, integration, E2E
- Git, CI/CD (GitLab CI or similar)
- AI-assisted engineering
- Daily hands-on use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) for development and review, including configuring them for a repository
- English
- Spoken English at B2 level or higher
- Nice to have: zkSync /
- ZK
- Stack and the specifics of the zk
- -rollup stack
- Designing, writing and testing smart contracts in Solidity with Foundry; deploying and upgrading them safely
- Building ERC-4337 infrastructure yourself (bundlers, paymasters); EIP-6963, EIP-5792
- DeFi: DEX and
- AMM mechanics
- NFTs and marketplaces: ERC-721, ERC-1155, auction mechanics
- L2 infrastructure: running nodes, indexers, bridges
- Designing SDKs for external developers
- Gaming domain experience
- HOW WE WORK
- Decisions in writing.
- Significant technical decisions are written up as an RFC or
- ADR that lays out the options and trade-offs. We discuss the document, not a blank whiteboard.
- AI is part of everyday engineering.
- We use AI coding tools for development and review, and we treat configuring them for a codebase as real engineering work.
- HOW WE HIRE
- Intro call.
- Your background, your motivation and the role.
- Technical interview.
- Built directly on the
What you will own
and
Required sections above. We won't ask about anything this posting doesn't promise.
Bar raiser.
An engineer from outside the hiring team checks that you raise the overall engineering bar.
THE TEAM
You will work alongside product managers, designers, smart contract, backend and frontend engineers, QA and DevOps.
BENEFITS
We are passionate about fostering a supportive environment for our team, so we prioritize the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of our employees and their families through a comprehensive Benefits Program. 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. Together, we're not just building a business; we're cultivating a community that values creativity, collaboration, and the transformative power of play.
EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
Location:
Remote (worldwide)
Employment Type:
Full-time
Schedule:
10:00–19:00 (flexible)
Contract:
- Employment agreement (entity or
- EOR arranged per candidate location)
- EQUAL EMPLOYMENT STATEMENT
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.
CONTACT
If you have questions regarding our hiring practices, please contact careers@ xsolla
.com. For more vacancies, visit xsolla
.com/careers.
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