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Tech Lead — DevX & AI
Xsolla
Montreal, CAN
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About the Role
Xsolla seeks a Tech Lead to drive delivery and cross-team coordination for the Shop Builder DevX and AI team. The role involves leading a squad of three engineers building developer surfaces like MCP server, CLI, SDK, and documentation pipeline.
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Responsibilities
- Drive the 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 engineering quality.
- Own cross team coordination: identify and pull inbound API capabilities from payments, auth, live ops, and catalog teams; unblock dependencies; manage integration timelines.
- Actively contribute to implementation — you ship production code alongside the team, particularly on the most critical and complex components.
- Partner with the Principal Engineer to translate architecture decisions into sprint level execution plans and realistic timelines.
- Collaborate with the PO on roadmap sequencing, scope decisions, and trade offs between speed and correctness.
- Own the team's delivery rhythm: sprint planning, technical grooming, retrospectives, and status visibility to engineering and business leadership.
- Define and maintain the team's engineering standards: testing strategy, observability, deployment practices, and documentation quality.
- Act as the primary technical contact for integrations with headless partners and the MIT professional services team during early partner onboarding.
- Contribute to hiring by conducting technical interviews and defining what great looks like for the engineers joining this team.
Requirements
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a tech lead, staff, or senior lead role driving delivery across a team
- 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
- Solid understanding of REST API design principles, SDK ergonomics, and developer experience
- Practical familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) or agentic tool use patterns
- Experience coordinating across multiple engineering teams to ship features that depend on inbound capabilities you don't own
- Proven ability to lead engineers: clear technical direction, raising the quality bar through reviews, developing other engineers' skills
- Cloud native experience: CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and deployment automation on AWS or GCP
- Strong communication skills — translate technical complexity into clear status for leadership
Full Job Posting
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.
- This is a hands on role. You write production code, lead code reviews, and drive technical decisions within your domain.
About Us
- Xsolla is a global payments and commerce platform for the games industry.
- Shop Builder is Xsolla's storefront platform — used by publishers and game developers to launch and operate game shops.
- 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.
Responsibilities
- Drive the 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 engineering quality.
- Own cross team coordination: identify and pull inbound API capabilities from payments, auth, live ops, and catalog teams; unblock dependencies; manage integration timelines.
- Actively contribute to implementation — you ship production code alongside the team, particularly on the most critical and complex components.
- Partner with the Principal Engineer to translate architecture decisions into sprint level execution plans and realistic timelines.
- Collaborate with the PO on roadmap sequencing, scope decisions, and trade offs between speed and correctness.
- Own the team's delivery rhythm: sprint planning, technical grooming, retrospectives, and status visibility to engineering and business leadership.
- Define and maintain the team's engineering standards: testing strategy, observability, deployment practices, and documentation quality.
- Act as the primary technical contact for integrations with headless partners and the MIT professional services team during early partner onboarding.
- Contribute to hiring by conducting technical interviews and defining what great looks like for the engineers joining this team.
Qualifications & Skills
- 6+ years of professional software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in a tech lead, staff, or senior lead role driving delivery across a team.
- 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 error messages that actually help.
- 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 to ship features that depend on inbound capabilities you don't own.
- Proven ability to lead engineers: clear technical direction, raising the quality bar through reviews, developing other engineers' skills.
- Cloud native experience: CI/CD pipelines, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and deployment automation on AWS or GCP.
- Strong communication skills — you translate technical complexity into clear status for leadership, and technical requirements into actionable work for your team.
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 LLM generated code evaluation.
- Prior experience standing up a greenfield team from scratch.
- Exposure to documentation as code workflows and toolchains that publish to multiple surfaces from a single source of truth.
Salary
- CAD 130,000 CAD 150,000 a year.
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