Tech Lead – DevX & AI

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Drive 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 quality
• ▹Own cross-team coordination: pull inbound API capabilities from payments, auth, live ops and catalog teams, unblock dependencies and manage integration timelines
• ▹Contribute actively to implementation, shipping production code on the most critical and complex components
• ▹Partner with the Principal Engineer to translate architecture decisions into sprint-level execution plans
• ▹Collaborate with the PO on roadmap sequencing, scope decisions and speed-versus-correctness trade-offs
• ▹Own the team's delivery rhythm: sprint planning, technical grooming, retrospectives and status visibility to leadership
• ▹Define and maintain engineering standards: testing strategy, observability, deployment practices and documentation quality
• ▹Act as primary technical contact for headless partners and the MIT professional services team during early partner onboarding
• ▹Contribute to hiring by conducting technical interviews

Requirements

• ▹6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a tech lead, staff or senior lead role
• ▹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 helpful error messages
• ▹Solid understanding of REST API design principles, SDK ergonomics and what makes a developer experience work
• ▹Practical familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or agentic tool-use patterns
• ▹Experience coordinating across multiple engineering teams
• ▹Proven ability to lead engineers with clear technical direction and quality reviews
• ▹Cloud-native experience: CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and deployment automation on AWS or GCP
• ▹Strong communication skills, translating technical complexity into clear status and requirements into actionable work

Nice to have

• ▹Experience in game tech, digital commerce, storefront platforms or headless architecture
• ▹Background building React component libraries, design systems or frontend platforms consumed by external developers
• ▹Experience building sandboxed execution environments for third-party code (custom blocks, extensions, plugins)
• ▹Familiarity with evaluating LLM-generated code
• ▹Prior experience standing up a greenfield team from scratch
• ▹Exposure to documentation-as-code workflows

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹Medical, dental and vision coverage
• ▹PTO
• ▹Personalized career roadmap for each employee
• ▹Professional development through training and educational opportunities

About the company

Xsolla is a global payments and commerce platform for the games industry. Shop Builder is its storefront platform, used by publishers and game developers to launch and operate game shops. The DevX and AI team is a net-new team of seven.