Principal Backend Engineer

Remote, [Mon-Thu]·Added 1 month ago (last checked 26 Oct)

Black Tree Gaming Ltd

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Our summary

Salary: £80,000 - £90,000 a year
About £4,750 - £5,230 a month after tax.
Work mode: Remote ([Mon-Thu])
Contract: Permanent

Skills

Backend

Requirements

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.

Pay & benefits

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.

The role

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: