Senior Software Engineer
Posted 1 day ago by BLACK TREE GAMING LIMITED
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Software Engineer role at Nexus Mods involves modernizing the gta5-mods.com application, enhancing code quality and security, and accelerating feature delivery. The position requires strong experience with Ruby on Rails and focuses on improving performance, reliability, and developer velocity. This is a contract position for 2 months, with the possibility of remote work within the UK.
Key Responsibilities:
- Upgrade to a supported Ruby/Rails version, update dependencies, and ensure all libraries are actively maintained.
- Enhance caching, background processing, and database performance; define and introduce SLOs and key metrics.
- Implement a modern development environment (DevSpace/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and static analysis.
- Refresh the frontend styling pipeline and modernize JS/CSS tooling for safer, faster asset delivery.
- Standardize logging, metrics, and tracing with actionable dashboards and alerts.
Key Skills:
- Proven Ruby on Rails experience.
- Demonstrated success modernizing or refactoring legacy web applications.
- Ability to work independently and deliver results with minimal supervision.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Greater London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
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. 65M+ registered members 750K+ mods for 3,500+ games 18B+ 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 are seeking an experienced Engineer to modernise the gta5-mods.com application, improve code quality and security, reduce operating risk and accelerate feature delivery. Our application is built with Ruby on Rails, so strong experience with this framework is essential.
Please Note This is a contract position, for 2 months (we work a 4-day week). Can be remote, but within the UK.
Responsibilities
- Security & Supportability: Upgrade to a supported Ruby/Rails version, update dependencies, and ensure all libraries are actively maintained,
- Performance & Reliability: Enhance caching, background processing, and database performance, define and introduce SLOs and key metrics.
- Developer Velocity: Implement a modern development environment (DevSpace/Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, automated testing and static analysis to improve iteration speed.
- UX/Frontend Modernization: Refresh the frontend styling pipeline and modernise JS/CSS tooling for safer, faster asset delivery.
- Observability: Standardise logging, metrics, and tracing with actionable dashboards and alerts.
Requirements Proven Ruby on Rails experience. Demonstrated success modernising or refactoring legacy web applications. Ability to work independently and deliver results with minimal supervision.