首席后端工程师
Principal Backend Engineer
#### 职位描述
**薪资:** £80,000 - £90,000
**地点:** 英国或欧洲
**注意:** 目前我们无法为国际签证提供支持。
**关于 Nexus Mods**
Nexus Mods 自 2001 年成立以来，已成为互联网上最大的视频游戏模组平台——是 PC 游戏生态系统中的知名品牌。
- 注册用户超过 7700 万
- 5000 多款游戏的 90 万多款模组
- 模组下载量超过 240 亿次
我们目前专注于产品现代化、推动增长，并为未来十年的社区驱动型模组开发构建基础设施。
**我们的职位：**
我们正在寻找一位高级后端工程师加入我们的后端工程团队。你将作为跨职能小组中技术负责人，负责构建 Nexus Mods 的核心服务。
这是一个注重实践的角色，主要负责塑造技术决策，指导小组的工程工作，为团队提供技术支持，并确保交付成果具备稳健性、可扩展性，并与我们的技术方向一致。
这是一个大多数公司从未遇到过的挑战：
- 为数百万用户和请求提供大规模服务。
- 复杂的模组兼容性、依赖关系和版本控制。
- 一个高度参与且充满热情的全球模组社区。
从发现和实验到交付和扩展，你将在塑造系统方面发挥关键作用，这些系统：
- 帮助数百万玩家轻松发现、下载和管理模组。
- 让创作者有信心地发布和管理他们的作品。
- 为高流量 API 和分布式系统提供支持。
- 支持网页和桌面应用程序。
- 实现新功能的快速实验和迭代。
- 确保平台能够支持未来十年的增长。
#### 职位职责
- 主导小组内的技术方向（架构、设计、工具、权衡）。
- 构建和扩展为数百万用户提供服务的后端服务和 API。
- 确保系统性能良好、可靠且易于维护。
- 使小组决策与整体平台架构保持一致。
- 支持并解除工程师的障碍，帮助团队成员高效工作。
- 与产品、设计和其他领域密切合作。
- 推动代码质量、测试和交付方面的工程标准。
- 参与发现、原型设计和迭代交付。
- 识别并解决技术债务和可扩展性挑战。
#### 职位要求
**要求：**
- 丰富的后端工程经验，最好有游戏或科技行业背景。
- 至少深入掌握一种后端技术栈。
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#### Role Description
**Salary:** £80,000 - £90,000
**Location:** UK or Europe
**Please note:** We are unable to sponsor international visas at this time.
**About Nexus Mods**
Established in 2001, Nexus Mods is the largest video game modding platform on the internet - a household name in the PC gaming ecosystem.
- 79M+ registered members
- 950K+ mods for 5,000+ games
- 26B+ mod downloads
We’re currently focused on product modernisation, driving growth and building infrastructure for the next 10 years of community-powered modding.
**Our Role:**
We’re looking for Principal Backend Engineer to join our Backend Engineering team. You will act as the technical lead within a cross functional pod building Nexus Mods’ core services.
This 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.
This is a chance to work on challenges most companies never encounter:
- Massive scale serving millions of users and requests.
- Complex mod compatibility, dependencies, and versioning.
- A deeply engaged and passionate global modding community.
From discovery and experimentation to delivery and scale, you’ll play a key role in shaping systems that:
- Help millions of gamers discover, download, and manage mods effortlessly.
- Empower creators to publish and manage their work with confidence.
- Power high traffic APIs and distributed systems at scale.
- Support both web and desktop applications.
- Enable rapid experimentation and iteration on new features.
- Ensure the platform evolves to support the next decade of growth.
#### Role Responsibilities
- Own technical direction within your pod (architecture, design, tooling, trade-offs).
- Build and scale backend services and APIs serving millions of users.
- Ensure systems are performant, reliable, and maintainable.
- Align pod decisions with wider platform architecture.
- Support and unblock engineers to help teammates work efficiently.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other disciplines.
- Drive engineering standards across code quality, testing, and delivery.
- Contribute to discovery, prototyping, and iterative delivery.
- Identify and tackle technical debt and scalability challenges.
#### Role Requirements
**Requirements:**
- Extensive backend engineering experience, ideally with gaming or tech.
- Deep experience with at least one backend language (Ruby, PHP, Java, Go, Node.js, etc.)
- Strong system design and architecture skills.
- Experience building and scaling APIs (REST and/or GraphQL).
- Solid understanding of distributed systems and event driven architectures.
- Experience with relational databases (Postgres/MySQL) and NoSQL (Redis/ElasticSeach).
- Experience with CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes.
- Strong communication skills and ability to lead through influence.
- Comfortable balancing speed, quality, and pragmatism.
**Bonus Skills:**
- Experience with authentication, payments, or search systems.
- Background in high scale platforms or UGC.
- Understanding of gaming ecosystems (e.g. multiplayer services, content distribution, or digital marketplaces).
- Experience building tools for creators, modding communities, or user-generated content platforms.
- Passion for gaming, modding, or creator ecosystems.
#### Benefits of Working at Nexus 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.
- 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!
**Diversity and Inclusion**
We celebrate diversity and want you to bring your whole self to work.
Supporting an incredible community of tens of millions of users, we thrive on engaging as many views as possible to improve our platform. We see no reason why our culture should be any different.