Senior Backend Engineer
Posted 12ds ago
Employment Information
Job Description
Senior Backend Engineer designing and building scalable APIs and backend systems for Nexus Mods. Collaborating with cross-functional teams in a remote setting, tackling complex technical challenges.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain backend services and APIs that power mod delivery, installation, publishing, and creator dashboards.
- Ensure services are performant, reliable, and secure at scale (tens of millions of users).
- Collaborate with Frontend, App, and DevOps Engineers in your pod to deliver end-to-end features.
- Contribute to product discovery by prototyping APIs, validating technical feasibility, and surfacing trade-offs early.
- Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.
- Set and maintain high standards and process: tests, CI/CD, documentation.
- Help mentor other engineers and contribute to shared standards across pods.
Requirements:
- Deep experience with at least one backend language (Ruby, PHP, Java, Go, Node.js, etc.) and curiosity to learn others.
- Experience designing and building APIs (REST and/or GraphQL).
- Solid experience with relational databases (Postgres, MySQL) and familiarity with NoSQL stores (Redis, ElasticSearch).
- Experience with distributed systems, queues, and event-driven architectures.
- Production experience with performance optimisation, caching and scalability.
- Hands-on experience deploying services with CI/CD pipelines and container orchestration (Docker/K8s).
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work in a cross-functional team.
- Ability to balance speed, quality and pragmatism in delivery.
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!
















