Backend Engineer
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Job Description
Backend Engineer working with Nexus Mods' backend team to enhance systems driving user growth and premium features. Collaborating across teams to deliver impactful features at scale.
Responsibilities:
- 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!
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