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Senior Backend Engineer - Korea

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Senior Backend Engineer - Korea in Others

  • Seoul, Korea

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain backend services powering core products and platforms.
  • Develop event-driven systems using Go and Kafka.
  • Build scalable microservices in containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Drive architecture decisions that improve performance, resiliency, and maintainability.
  • Collaborate with engineers, product managers, designers, and QA to deliver end-to-end solutions.
  • Own services in production by monitoring, debugging, and improving performance and reliability.
  • Write automated tests and support high-quality deployments.
  • Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and knowledge sharing.
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of backend development experience in Go or a similar language.
  • Strong understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and event-based communication.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and container orchestration, including Kubernetes and Docker.
  • Understanding of observability, monitoring, and performance optimization.
  • Ability to troubleshoot production issues, analyze system behavior, and drive resolution.
  • Business-level proficiency in Korean is required.
  • Nice-to-have experience includes gaming, payments, commerce systems, adtech, offer monetization platforms, Kafka or equivalent streaming platforms, Redis or similar in-memory data stores, AWS, GCP, Azure, ClickHouse, Postgres, analytical or OLAP/OLTP databases, and internal platforms or developer-facing tools.

Xsolla

Xsolla builds commerce and monetization infrastructure for video games, offering payment processing, merchant-of-record services, storefronts, subscriptions, and anti-fraud tools for developers and publishers. The privately held company, founded in 2005 and headquartered in Sherman Oaks, Californ...

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