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You will act as the technical lead within a cross functional pod building Nexus Mods' core services.\nThis is a hands-on role focused on shaping technical decisions, guiding the pod's engineering work, supporting the team technically, and ensuring delivery is robust, scalable, and aligned with our technical direction.\nThis is a chance to work on challenges most companies never encounter:\nMassive scale serving millions of users and requests.\nComplex mod compatibility, dependencies, and versioning.\nA deeply engaged and passionate global modding community.\nFrom discovery and experimentation to delivery and scale, you'll play a key role in shaping systems that:\nHelp millions of gamers discover, download, and manage mods effortlessly.\nEmpower creators to publish and manage their work with confidence.\nPower high traffic APIs and distributed systems at scale.\nSupport both web and desktop applications.\nEnable rapid experimentation and iteration on new features.\nEnsure the platform evolves to support the next decade of growth.\nRole Responsibilities\nOwn technical direction within your pod (architecture, design, tooling, trade-offs).\nBuild and scale backend services and APIs serving millions of users.\nEnsure systems are performant, reliable, and maintainable.\nAlign pod decisions with wider platform architecture.\nSupport and unblock engineers to help teammates work efficiently.\nCollaborate closely with Product, Design, and other disciplines.\nDrive engineering standards across code quality, testing, and delivery.\nContribute to discovery, prototyping, and iterative delivery.\nIdentify and tackle technical debt and scalability challenges.\nRole Requirements\nRequirements:\nExtensive backend engineering experience, ideally with gaming or tech.\nDeep experience with at least one backend language (Ruby, PHP, Java, Go, Node.js, etc.)\nStrong system design and architecture skills.\nExperience building and scaling APIs (REST and/or GraphQL).\nSolid understanding of distributed systems and event driven architectures.\nExperience with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL) and NoSQL (Redis/ElasticSeach).\nExperience with CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.\nStrong communication skills and ability to lead through influence.\nComfortable balancing speed, quality, and pragmatism.\nBonus Skills:\nExperience with authentication, payments, or search systems.\nBackground in high scale platforms or UGC.\nUnderstanding of gaming ecosystems (e.g. multiplayer services, content distribution, or digital marketplaces).\nExperience building tools for creators, modding communities, or user-generated content platforms.\nPassion for gaming, modding, or creator ecosystems.\nBenefits of Working at Nexus Mods\nBenefits:\nWe work a 4-day week of 32 hours, with no reduction in pay.\nAn allowance of £25 each month to spend on video games.\nEmployee Assistance Programme.\nPrivate BUPA healthcare for you and your family.\nA very flexible training budget.\nRegular social events throughout the year. Participation is optional!\nDiversity and Inclusion\nWe celebrate diversity and want you to bring your whole self to work.\nSupporting an incredible community of tens of millions of users, we thrive on engaging as many views as possible to improve our platform. 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