Tech Lead

Xsolla
Montreal
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Communication","Mentoring","Cross-functional collaboration"]

We are seeking a Tech Lead to drive technical direction, architecture, and delivery of Xsolla’s anti-fraud platform. You will own real-time risk scoring systems, rule engines, and integrations with risk, payments, and compliance teams, balancing speed, security, and reliability in a fintech/payments environment at global scale.

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Xsolla
Xsolla
7 months ago

Tech Lead

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Job Summary

We are seeking a Tech Lead to drive technical direction, architecture, and delivery of Xsolla’s anti-fraud platform. You will own real-time risk scoring systems, rule engines, and integrations with risk, payments, and compliance teams, balancing speed, security, and reliability in a fintech/payments environment at global scale.
Location: Montreal
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Provide technical leadership and architecture direction for Xsolla’s anti-fraud platform and services.
  • •Own the technical vision and architecture for real-time transaction risk scoring, rule engines, and decision workflows.
  • •Lead architectural decisions around AFS integrations, internal fraud engines, and third-party providers.
  • •Ensure systems meet performance, reliability, security, and compliance requirements.
  • •Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, collaborate with Product, Data Science, Risk, Operations, and Compliance teams to evolve fraud detection and prevention capabilities.

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with significant time in fintech or payments
  • •Proven experience designing or leading Anti-Fraud Systems (AFS) such as rule engines, risk scoring pipelines, or decision orchestration systems
  • •Strong backend engineering skills (e.g., Java, Kotlin, Go, or similar)
  • •Experience building high-volume, low-latency distributed systems
  • •Hands-on fraud prevention experience in payment processing, digital commerce, or gaming environments
Experience:8+ yearsFintechPaymentsGaming
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationMentoringCross-functional collaboration
Tech Stack:JavaKotlinGoEvent-drivenAPIsReal-timeDistributed systems

Company Brief

Xsolla
Provides payment, billing, distribution and commerce solutions for video game developers and publishers, enabling in-game purchases, store infrastructure, fraud protection, and global payment processing to monetize games across platforms and regions.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, United States
Founded: 2005
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