Backend Engineer

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Nexus Mods

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Nexus Mods is the world’s largest games mod site, hosting over 500,000 files and home to over 14,000,000 passionate community members. Transforming users gaming experience and extending the life of existing titles through the hard work and dedication of mod authors worldwide.Founded in 2001, Nexus Mods has seen rapid growth year on year and established itself as a global platform to showcase user-created video game modifications. With over 2.5 billion downloads we have one of the most engaged communities in the world.

11 - 50 employees

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain backend services and APIs for premium features, creator tools, marketing integrations, and user growth systems. • Work closely with Product, Design, and Digital Marketing teams to understand requirements and deliver features that support commercial goals. • Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. • Ensure backend services remain secure, performant, and scalable. • Contribute to product discovery by participating in ideation, providing technical input, and helping validate feasibility. • Follow engineering best practices: testing, CI/CD, documentation, observability. • Collaborate with other Engineers and share learnings across pods.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience with at least one backend language (Ruby, PHP, Java, Go, Node.js etc). • Experience designing or maintaining APIs (Rest and/or GraphQL). • Solid understanding of relational databases (Postgres, MySQL) and familiarity with NoSQL systems (Redis, ElasticSearch). • Understanding of distributed systems, queues, or event-driven architectures. • Experience with performance optimisation, caching, or scalability concepts. • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and containerisation (Docker/K8s). • Comfortable working closely with product, design, and marketing in a cross-functional setting. • Ability to balance quality with speed and experimentation. • **Bonus Skills ** • Familiarity with Ruby on Rails. • Experience with payments, billing systems, or subscription models. • Understanding of authentication, identity management, or account value systems. • Experience with search technologies (ElasticSearch, Meilisearch). • Exposure to growth engineering, funnel optimisation, or experimentation frameworks. • Experience with gaming ecosystems, UGC platforms, or modding tools. • Passion for games and mods.

🏖️ Benefits

• We work a 4-day week of 32 hours, with no reduction in pay. • An allowance of £25 each month to spend on video games (anything required for work is bought by the business!). • Employee Assistance Programme. • Private BUPA healthcare for you and your family. • A very flexible training budget. • Regular social events throughout the year. Participation is optional!