Tech Lead – Parental Control

ABOUT US

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 ROLE

We are hiring a Tech Lead, Parental Controls. You will build the team and the service that checks a player's age and gets a parent's consent before a child can buy.

This is a coding role. You write production code at least half of your week, you make the architecture decisions, and you hire the engineers who build this with you.

Responsibilities

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Write production Go and TypeScript: the status API, token validation, consent rules, the standalone widget and the web SDK

Own the architecture and write it down

Hire and grow a team of about six backend, frontend and QA engineers: write the role profiles, run the interviews, onboard each person

Set up how the team works: code review, CI, releases, on-call, AI coding tools in the repositories

Keep children's data safe: token validation, consent records, no decision from a result that only the browser reports

Work with Legal, Security teams on requirements, dependencies and release gates

WHAT YOU WILL WORK WITH

Go, go-kit, gRPC and REST, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, Temporal; TypeScript with Angular and React; OpenTelemetry and Datadog; Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab CI; a third-party age-verification and consent vendor.

REQUIRED

7+ years in software engineering, Go as your main language for the last 3+ years. You still write and ship code

2+ years as a tech lead or team lead of 4+ engineers, with hiring experience: you have built a team or a large part of one

Backend depth: API design, PostgreSQL, message queues, idempotent integrations with third-party APIs, workflow orchestration (Temporal or similar)

TypeScript: enough to review React or Angular code and design a small embeddable web SDK

Security basics for identity flows: JWT, OAuth2, webhook signatures, XSS, CSRF, CSP

Operations: Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, tracing and metrics, on-call for a service you own

Daily use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), including their setup for a repository

English at B2 or higher