At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and build scalable features for Vortex, impacting millions of gamers.
- Company: Join Nexus Mods, the largest modding platform in the gaming world.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, remote work, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a passionate team driving innovation in the gaming community.
- Why this job: Shape the future of gaming by tackling unique technical challenges.
- Qualifications: Hands-on experience with Electron and strong problem-solving skills.
The predicted salary is between 65000 - 75000 £ per year.
Salary: £65,000 - £75,000
Location: Remote, but within the UK. 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.
- 71M+ registered members
- 800K+ mods for 4,000+ games
- 21B+ 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 a Senior Software Engineer to join our Engineering team, working on Vortex, our flagship desktop mod manager. This role requires hands-on Electron experience, you'll work across the main process, renderer, and extension surfaces of a desktop app used by millions of PC gamers. You'll design, build, and scale consumer-facing systems at real scale, tackling problems most companies never see: massive scale, complex compatibility, deep OS integration, and passionate user communities.
You'll be hands-on in shaping features that directly impact the modding ecosystem helping millions of gamers install, sort, and manage mods across hundreds of games; powering long-running client-side workflows like downloads, deployments, and conflict resolution; and tackling dependency, versioning, and compatibility challenges across 500+ supported games. Vortex's user base is currently Windows-first, with Linux support on the long-term roadmap. The codebase and tooling need to be portable from the start, and we need people to help drive that transition.
Requirements:
- Own significant areas of the application designing, building, and maintaining robust, scalable features across the Electron main process, renderer, and extension surfaces, for tens of millions of users on varying hardware and OS configurations.
- Work across the full delivery lifecycle from discovery and prototyping through technical planning and multi-sprint delivery of new game support and major workflow changes.
- Tackle hard technical problems: performance regressions, race conditions, complex state bugs.
- Evolve local data, configuration, and user profiles safely across releases, without data loss or corruption.
- Collaborate with other engineering teams on end-to-end features, and review contributions from both community and internal developers.
- Help steward the public extension API, balancing third-party developer freedom with a sound trust/permission model.
- Improve observability and operational standards; diagnose field issues using crash reports, telemetry, and logs.
- Drive best practices in performance, state management, security, accessibility, and internationalisation.
- Write clean, well-tested code and uphold high standards across CI/CD, packaging, and documentation.
- Help mentor other engineers and share standards across pods.
Senior Software Engineer employer: Black Tree Gaming
Nexus Mods is an exceptional employer, offering a vibrant work culture that thrives on innovation and collaboration within the gaming community. With a focus on employee growth, you will have the opportunity to lead technical initiatives and shape the future of modding for millions of users, all while enjoying the flexibility of working from the UK or Europe. Join us to be part of a passionate team dedicated to empowering creators and enhancing the gaming experience.
