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Head of Backend Development

5 hours, 4 minutes ago
United Kingdom
Full-time
Lead
Head of Engineering
Software Development
AWS CI/CD GCP .NET PostgreSQL Ruby Ruby on Rails System Design
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Nexus Mods

Nexus Mods

Nexus Mods, established in 2001, is the world's largest platform for video game modding, hosting over 500,000 files and serving a community of over 14 million members. With a repository of 400,000 mods for 2,000 games, Nexus Mods transforms gaming expe...

Internet Software & Services
11-50
Founded 2001
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Description

  • Own the backend architecture, including APIs, data models, pipelines, and service boundaries.
  • Drive a backend-first approach by keeping clients thin and pushing complexity into the backend.
  • Champion a monolith-first architecture and avoid service sprawl unless scale requires it.
  • Set standards for API design, consistency, testing, observability, and developer experience.
  • Guide technical decisions around metadata, mod manifests, dependency modelling, and install reliability for the Desktop App.
  • Lead and mentor backend engineers across Ruby/Rails, PHP, and platform services.
  • Create clarity through engineering standards, expectations, and architectural guardrails.
  • Coach the team, support technical growth, and build structured development paths.
  • Ensure backend teams deliver value weekly with predictable, fast execution.
  • Own uptime, performance, resilience, and incident response for mission-critical systems.
  • Partner with SRE/Infra to improve CI/CD, monitoring, logging, and operational practices.
  • Lead root-cause analysis and promote calm, transparent handling of production incidents.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in a senior engineering leadership or management role in backend development.
  • Recent experience leading teams or technical groups.
  • Deep expertise with Ruby and Ruby on Rails in high-traffic environments.
  • Strong background in building and scaling large web applications and APIs.
  • Experience with relational databases, with PostgreSQL preferred.
  • Strong understanding of system design, distributed systems, caching, queues, and job processing.
  • Strong architectural instincts with a monolith-first, pragmatic approach.
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure such as AWS or GCP.
  • Experience with modern DevOps tooling.
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to create alignment across teams.
  • Calm, structured leadership during production issues and high-pressure situations.
  • Experience working on creator platforms, content distribution, or gaming products is a bonus.
  • Familiarity with modding ecosystems, dependency graphs, file pipelines, or game tooling is a bonus.
  • Experience building APIs consumed by Electron or .NET desktop apps is a bonus.
  • Experience modernising legacy systems while maintaining delivery, such as using a Strangler pattern, is a bonus.

Benefits

  • 4-day work week of 32 hours with no reduction in pay.
  • £25 monthly allowance to spend on video games.
  • Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Private BUPA healthcare for you and your family.
  • Very flexible training budget.
  • Regular social events throughout the year.
  • Optional participation in social events.

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