Xsolla

Director of Engineering – Card & Alternative Payments

Xsolla

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Serbia

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Distributed Systems

About the role

  • Lead and scale multiple engineering teams across regions and time zones.
  • Build strong engineering leadership bench strength (Tech Leads, engineers).
  • Drive a culture of accountability, ownership, and operational excellence.
  • Establish clear KPIs and performance frameworks aligned with business outcomes.
  • Partner closely with Product, Risk and Compliance teams globally to drive expansion and excellence.
  • Deep expertise of card payment technology including Authorization, clearing, settlement lifecycle.
  • Authorization rate optimization strategies.
  • Alternative Payment Methods (APMs).
  • Ensure consistent architectural standards across card and APM ecosystems.
  • Define and drive the long-term payments platform architecture roadmap.
  • Champion modern, scalable, event-driven and service-oriented architectures.
  • Architect and maintain mission-critical payment systems with 99.99%+ uptime targets.
  • Implement multi-acquirer and multi-provider redundancy strategies.
  • Define disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity frameworks.
  • Leverage AI to drive end to end automation.
  • Define escalation frameworks and operational playbooks.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of engineering experience, with 5+ years in senior leadership roles.
  • Proven experience leading multiple engineering teams across global regions.
  • Deep hands-on knowledge of global payments (including card payments and alternative payments) technology.
  • Experience building and operating high-availability, distributed systems.
  • Strong experience in regulated industries (payments, fintech, banking).
  • Demonstrated success driving architectural transformation at scale.
  • Experience managing systems processing high transaction volumes.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
card payment technologyAuthorizationclearingsettlement lifecycleAuthorization rate optimizationAlternative Payment Methodsevent-driven architectureservice-oriented architecturehigh-availability systemsdisaster recovery
Soft Skills
leadershipaccountabilityownershipoperational excellencecollaborationcommunicationstrategic thinkingperformance managementteam buildingproblem solving