Frontend Engineer

Base pay range

Location: Remote with the UK or Europe
Salary range: £50,000 - £60,000 - compensation outside the UK will be adjusted based on location.
We are unable to sponsor international visas at this time.

Our Role

We're looking for a Frontend Engineer to join our team, building the interfaces behind our core products and ecosystem. In this role, you'll help design, develop, and improve the experiences that millions of gamers and creators use every day. You'll collaborate closely with Designers, Product Managers, and Backend Engineers to bring intuitive, performant, and accessible experiences to life across web and desktop applications. You'll work on challenges that are massive in scale, deep community driven workflows, complex, and for a passionate global audience. This is a highly collaborative role where you'll work cross‑functionally to experiment, iterate, and deliver features that meaningfully impact the business.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain frontend features and components across Nexus Mods' web and desktop experiences.
• Collaborate with Design, Product, Backend Engineers within your pod to deliver end‑to‑end features.
• Implement responsive, accessible UI that works seamlessly across a wide range of devices and browsers.
• Integrate frontend applications with backend APIs and help share efficient data flows.
• Ensure the frontend is performant, reliable, and well‑tested.
• Participate in product delivery by providing technical input, contributing to prototypes, and helping evaluate trade‑offs.
• Follow frontend best practices around testing, documentation, code quality, and CI/CD workflows.

Requirements

• Proven working experience in a similar role.
• Experience working with modern JavaScript frameworks.
• Strong understanding of JavaScript, CSS and HTML.
• An interest in learning and exploring new technologies.
• Experience working in agile teams.
• Good communication skills and comfort collaborating in a cross‑functional team.

Bonus skills

• Experience with large‑scale web applications, content platforms, or gaming communities.
• Experience with gaming ecosystems, UGC platforms, or modding tools.
• Passion for games and 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 (anything required for work is bought by the business!).
• 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!

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.
We're currently focused on product modernisation, driving growth and building infrastructure for the next 10 years of community‑powered modding.

• 65M+ registered members
• 750K+ mods for 3,500+ games
• 18B+ mod downloads.

How We Work

At Nexus Mods, engineers don't disappear into silos. You'll join a cross‑functional product pod—an autonomous, outcome‑focused team with everything needed to help ship real impact: Product Manager, Tech Lead, Backend/Frontend Engineers, App Developers, Designers, QAs, Community & Content. Pods own strategy, discovery, delivery, and results. That means you're not just handed tickets; you help shape what gets built, test ideas with users, and see your work reach millions of gamers worldwide.

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.

Seniority level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

• Full‑time

Job function

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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