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Senior Frontend Platform Engineer
Nexus Mods
£65–75K / year · Remote · United Kingdom
Nexus Mods runs a video game modding platform hosting over 800,000 mods for more than 3,500 games, with large-scale file distribution and web platform engineering at its core.
Nexus Mods is a video game modding platform founded in 2001 that serves as a central hub for discovering, sharing, and downloading user-generated game modifications. It hosts over 800,000 mods for more than 3,500 games, has registered more than 70 million members, and has served billions of downloads to date. The company operates globally across the video games, PC gaming, user-generated content, and digital content distribution verticals.
The engineering work spans web platform development, large-scale file hosting and distribution, community platform infrastructure, and cloud infrastructure at scale. The company is engaged in product modernization and growth initiatives, with the platform and its underlying infrastructure being evolved continuously. Scale is the defining technical characteristic: the volume of hosted content, the size of the member base, and the cumulative download traffic shape the platform's architecture and distribution systems.
The Nexus Mods platform lets mod authors distribute their creations and gives gamers access to a large library of mod content. The company describes itself as built on a foundation of community-driven passion, with a stated focus on empowering mod authors and creators and supporting the next generation of modding.