Team Lead at Xsolla

Job description

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 Team Lead, Web3 to lead a cross-functional team of frontend, backend, smart contract and QA engineers in Xsolla ZK , Xsolla 's Web3 ecosystem on a zkSync-based L2. Your team builds: 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 management role. Most of your time goes to people and delivery: building the team, growing engineers, and making delivery predictable. The rest goes to technical leadership: architecture, reviews and hands-on code where it matters. Responsibilities WHAT YOU WILL OWN The team: hiring, onboarding, growth and performance of frontend, backend, smart contract and QA engineers Delivery: predictable commitments, a sustainable pace and the quality of what the team ships How the team works: processes, engineering standards and an AI-assisted workflow Relationships with Product, DevOps and other Xsolla product teams: priorities, dependencies and expectations The technical direction of the team's product area: on-chain / off-chain architecture and key technical decisions, justified in writing Security and reliability of what the team ships: signing flows, contracts that hold user assets, production operation and the team's on-call rotation WHAT YOU WILL DO People Set clear goals and expectations for each engineer Run regular 1:1s, performance reviews and career development conversations; give direct feedback and address underperformance Hire engineers across disciplines: define roles, run interviews and onboard new people Grow engineers through mentoring and build the team's next leaders Build a culture of technical excellence, collaboration and continuous learning Delivery Work with Product to shape requirements, estimate and plan work Manage scope, workload, risks and dependencies so the team delivers on its commitments Report progress, risks and blockers to stakeholders Lead the team through production incidents and post-mortems Continuously improve development processes and team efficiency Technical leadership Review architecture and critical code across backend, frontend and smart contracts, with a focus on edge cases specific to Xsolla products: smart wallets, tokenization of in-game items and currencies, marketplace and auction flows Lead key decisions on smart wallet integration (UserOperations, paymaster and gas sponsorship), session keys and the signing flow Identify systemic risks (key management, signature phishing, bundler and RPC dependencies) and make sure they are addressed before they become incidents Contribute hands-on to critical features when needed Set up AI tooling in the repositories (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor: rules, context, harness) and drive its adoption across the team REQUIRED Management experience 5+ years of engineering management experience Managing cross-functional teams that combine several disciplines (for example frontend, backend, smart contracts and QA) Teams you led shipped dApps to production and maintained them People leadership Hiring and building teams: de