Full Stack Engineer, Jagex
Core Tech
+ Discretionary annual performance bonus
Video game studio
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Video game studio
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Discretionary annual performance bonus
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make forever games that connect and inspire players all around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Experience delivering web applications or contributing to large established software projects as an Engineer
- Proficiency in Java or C#, including experience with backend development and ideally frameworks such as Spring Boot
- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and experience using modern front-end frameworks such as React, Next and Node
- Experience building and integrating RESTful services and publish-subscribe messaging systems
- Demonstrable experience with automated testing frameworks (unit, mock, and integration)
- Some knowledge of how AWS Cloud and/or Azure work with a willingness to learn and manage AWS services and IaC tooling such as Terraform
- Knowledge of version control and CI/CD systems (e.g., Git, Bitbucket Pipelines, Bamboo) and supporting tools such as Ansible and Helm
- Familiarity with microservices backend architectures
- Proven strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical team members
- Strong problem-solving, debugging, profiling, and optimisation skills
What the job involves
- Are you a Full Stack Engineer who enjoys building scalable, secure, and user-focused systems while working as part of a collaborative team peers?
- As a Full Stack Engineer in the Player Gateway team at Jagex, you’ll be part of our Central Technology group, providing the backbone behind our games
- Ou’ll design and deliver the systems that enable millions of players to access the RuneScape games seamlessly, powering core platform journeys such as login, account management, and cross-platform connectivity
- You’ll work on high-impact projects across the full software development lifecycle, helping define how players interact with our games
- You'll collaborate closely with engineers across the company to support shared services and integrations, and act as a mentor to junior team members, leading by example through high-quality engineering practices
- Contributing to all areas of the Software Development Lifecycle, including secure-by-design coding, automated testing, code review, documentation and deployment
- Delivering code that meets the code standards, principles and best practices of the department ensuring quality in the work you deliver
- Contributing to your team or domain by successfully delivering on projects of moderate scope, complexity and critical business impact
- Contributing to make services monitored, scalable, robust, highly available and performant
- Working as part of a team to maintain and support highly available software and user journeys
- Providing on-call support as part of our rota to troubleshoot and resolve out-of-hours production issues
- Looking for opportunities to improve systems, services, and processes, working with the team to deliver possible improvements
- Understanding and demonstrating agile principles and values
- Acts as a role model for more junior engineers, living the company values and behaviours
- Work as part of a team, ensuring the right balance between product, production and engineering to deliver on business value and demonstrate Jagex values
- Supporting evaluation of both off-the-shelf and in-house solutions to identify the best fit for the business
Our take
Founded in 2000, Jagex is the video game studio behind the RuneScape titles. It is one of the largest British video game studios, having ammased 2.4 million active subscribers, one million free-to-play users, and over 300 million lifetime RuneScape accounts.
Jagex specialises in "forever games", in which players can continue to discover new experiences and challenges without ever reaching an end. RuneScape is a perfect example of this approach, still receiving updates over twenty years after its initial release.
On top of the RuneScape franchise, the company's acquisition of Gamepires brought titles such as SCUM under the company's banner, which it is also working to make into a forever game. It also acquired Pipeworks - adding a Games-as-a-Service platform to its broadening portfolio.
In 2024, it was announced that Jagex would be bought by CVC Capital Partners and Haveli Investments. This represents a move that will position it well to pursue creating more new and innovative player experiences in the future.
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Company
Company benefits
- Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan
- £75 Monthly Energy Allowance (paid on top of your salary)
- Generous Pension Contributions
- Free Gym Membership
- Employee Assistance Programme & Onsite Counselling
- Life Insurance X4 your Salary
- Income Protection 75% Salary
- Annual performance bonus & Pay Reviews
- Enhanced Maternity and Paternity - from day 1
- 25 days annual leave +Bank holidays (Increasing by 1 day per year of service up to 30 days)
- Flexible Working Hours
- Flash Bonuses
Company HQ
Milton, UK
Leadership
Phil Mansell
(CEO)Has worked at Jagex since 2011, beginning as Lead Designer then transitioning through roles to become VP of Studios then CEO. Also former Board Member for Ukie and Lead Designer at Climax and Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
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