Xsolla
Tech Lead – Frontend Platform Team
Remote Frontend Development role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJul 4, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalSenior
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
Canada
Role overview
Tech Lead – Frontend Platform Team
Requirements and responsibilities
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Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership for the Xsolla frontend platform, defining architecture, coding standards, and long-term technical direction.
- Coach, mentor, and manage a team of ~8 developers, supporting professional growth and maintaining a strong engineering culture.
- Partner closely with the other Tech Leads working on the same platform to ensure architectural alignment, consistent standards, and unified decision-making.
- Oversee planning and execution of platform features and improvements, ensuring smooth delivery and high-quality outcomes.
- Drive modernization, refactoring, and performance enhancements to keep the platform scalable, maintainable, and aligned with product goals.
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices across coding, documentation, testing, and review processes.
- Collaborate with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and platform teams to deliver cohesive partner-facing experiences.
- Ensure strong automated test coverage and reliable CI/CD workflows that reduce manual effort and improve delivery predictability.
- Leverage automation and AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development, improve consistency, and increase developer velocity.
- Own operational excellence, including incident response, root-cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
- Advocate for scalability, performance, security, and observability across the platform’s architecture and tooling.
- Identify technical risks, estimate complexity, and communicate trade-offs to leadership and stakeholders.
- Foster alignment with other engineering teams on shared services, APIs, rendering pipelines, and platform interfaces.
Qualifications & Skills:
- 8+ years of software development experience with strong expertise in modern frontend engineering at scale. At least 3 years in a similar tech lead role.
- Deep hands-on knowledge of React including component architecture, SSR patterns, RSC, and complex UI data flows.
- Proficiency with Node.js and MongoDB for server-side functionality.
- Strong understanding of modern styling systems and theming approaches (vanilla-extract, styled-components, design tokens).
- Solid TypeScript practices, including strict typing, shared contracts, and schema validation (Zod or equivalent).
- Experience with Module Federation
- Good understanding of bundling and compilation, experience with webpack/rollup/vite/esbuild.
- Experience with automated testing frameworks (Vitest/Jest) and end-to-end testing (Playwright/Cypress).
- Good understanding of backend integration patterns (REST, GraphQL, RPC-style APIs).
- Experience with CI/CD workflows (GitLab CI or similar), private registries, and secure artifact handling.
- Proven ability to lead engineers, own architectural decisions, and manage delivery for complex platform projects.
Nice to Have:
- Experience building platforms or tooling used across multiple frontend teams (design systems, template engines, configuration frameworks). Experience with react-native/mobile experience
- Knowledge of performance optimization strategies for client-side and server-side rendering.
- Understanding of accessibility, internationalization, and semantic UI design best practices.
- Experience developing SDKs, CLI tools, or developer-facing automation.
- Familiarity with event-driven UI flows, real-time interfaces, or edge-rendering strategies.
- Background improving developer platforms, observability stacks, or performance monitoring systems.
- Comfort with UI-as-data approaches and leveraging AI-assisted/no-code tooling to accelerate feature delivery.
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