Frontend Engineer

Nexus Mods

United Kingdom

Remote

GBP 50,000 - 60,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

4-day work week

Monthly video game allowance

Employee Assistance Programme

Private healthcare

Flexible training budget

Regular social events

Job summary

A leading gaming modding platform in the United Kingdom is seeking a Frontend Engineer to join their team. The role involves building and maintaining frontend features for their web and desktop experiences, collaborating closely with designers and engineers. The ideal candidate will possess strong skills in JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, with prior experience in similar roles. Benefits include a 4-day work week, video game allowances, and private healthcare. Join us in shaping a community-driven gaming ecosystem.

Qualifications

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.
Good communication skills and comfort collaborating in a cross‑functional team.

Responsibilities

Build and maintain frontend features across web and desktop experiences.
Collaborate with Design, Product, and Backend Engineers.
Implement responsive, accessible UI across devices and browsers.
Integrate frontend applications with backend APIs.
Ensure frontend performance and reliability.
Participate in product delivery with technical input.
Follow frontend best practices around testing and documentation.

Skills

JavaScript

CSS

HTML

Modern JavaScript frameworks

Agile collaboration

Communication

Job description

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.

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