Tech Lead — DevX & AI

Xsolla
Montreal, CA
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at senior engineers who bridge architecture and execution in game commerce platforms, with hands-on coding and cross-team coordination in Montreal.

Best fit for

  • Senior engineers who translate technical direction into shipping products
    — “bridge between architecture and execution
  • Leaders comfortable with hands-on coding while managing a small squad
    — “This is a hands-on role
  • Developers with experience building public APIs and documentation pipelines
    — “owns the public APIs, documentation

Things to consider

  • Must coordinate dependencies across multiple internal teams
    — “coordinate inbound dependencies from payments, auth, live ops, and catalog
  • Responsible for both code quality and delivery cadence
    — “own the quality of what ships

How to stand out

  • Demonstrate experience standing up net-new teams in past roles
    — “This is a net-new team of seven
  • Show examples of shipping developer surfaces end-to-end
    — “no dedicated team has owned the developer surface end to end
  • Highlight cross-team coordination in complex technical environments
    — “coordinate across teams and represent the team's work to engineering leadership
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · HighDecision Impact · TeamLevel · Senior

Derived from job-description analysis by Serendipath's career intelligence engine.

What success looks like

  • successful product launches
  • high-quality code delivery
  • efficient cross-team collaboration
Typical background
software engineeringtechnical leadership

Skills & requirements

Required

Software DevelopmentTeam LeadershipTechnical ArchitectureCode ReviewsCross-team Coordination

Preferred

AI DevelopmentDevops Practices

Stack & domain

Software DevelopmentTeam CoordinationTechnical DirectionCode ReviewsTechnical DecisionsLeadershipCommunicationTechnologySoftware

About the role

Original posting from Xsolla via Lever

ABOUT YOU

We are looking for a Tech Lead to drive delivery and cross-team coordination for the Shop Builder DevX and AI team. 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.

You lead a squad of three engineers building the developer surface that Shop Builder is missing — MCP server, CLI, SDK, documentation pipeline, local dev environment, deploy and versioning path. You set the delivery cadence, remove blockers, coordinate inbound dependencies from payments, auth, live ops, and catalog, and own the quality of what ships.

This is a hands-on role. You write production code, lead code reviews, and drive technical decisions within your domain. You also have the seniority and judgment to coordinate across teams and represent the team's work to engineering leadership.

ABOUT US

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.

Source: Xsolla careers (Lever)

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