Lead Delivery Engineer, Jagex
Offers Discretionary annual performance bonus.
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Video game studio
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Video game studio
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
Offers Discretionary annual performance bonus.
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To make forever games that connect and inspire players all around the world.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience leading the design and evolution of automation platforms, engineering frameworks, or developer tooling within a modern software engineering environment
- Strong programming experience in one or more languages, such as C#, Java, Python, Go, or TypeScript, with the technical depth to guide teams in building scalable and maintainable engineering solutions
- Extensive experience with automated testing and continuous delivery, including test automation frameworks and CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Azure DevOps, or comparable technologies
- Practical experience with cloud-native engineering environments, including cloud platforms, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, containerisation, and orchestration technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Docker, or Kubernetes
- Demonstrable understanding of software architecture, distributed systems, and microservices, with experience making pragmatic technical decisions across complex or varied technology stacks
- Proven ability to lead technical initiatives and drive adoption, including defining engineering metrics, influencing across teams, and delivering measurable improvements in software delivery
What the job involves
- As an Automation Engineer at Jagex, you’ll design, build, and evolve the automation systems, tools, and workflows that support an open-world experience in Unreal Engine across PC and console platforms
- As our Lead Delivery Engineer, you’ll establish and lead a new Delivery Engineering function within our Developer Platform division
- Your team will own the shared tooling, automation, standards, and engineering practices that help our game, platform, and product teams build, test, and release high-quality software with greater speed, confidence, and consistency
- This is a genuinely greenfield opportunity where you'll grow and lead a multidisciplinary team of Automation Engineers, set its direction and priorities, and work with development leads across multiple products and technology stacks to solve delivery challenges and drive the adoption of modern engineering practices
- Shape and execute the strategy for Delivery Engineering, establishing a clear roadmap that improves developer productivity, software quality, release reliability, and engineering consistency across Jagex
- Build and lead a growing team of Automation Engineers, developing the team’s capabilities across software automation, testing, continuous delivery, release engineering, and developer tooling
- Partner with game, platform, and product engineering teams to understand their delivery challenges, turning their needs into practical solutions that development teams trust, adopt, and benefit from
- Lead the development of reusable platforms, automation, and engineering standards, helping teams improve how they build, test, release, and operate software while retaining appropriate autonomy
- Modernise fragmented tooling and delivery practices across the business, reducing duplication and applying emerging technologies, including AI, where they can demonstrate measurable improvements in engineering productivity
- Define and track engineering effectiveness metrics, using data to demonstrate improvements in developer experience, delivery performance, software quality, and platform adoption
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 amassed 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 benefits
- Annual performance bonus
- Pension scheme
- Valiant values rewards & recognition
- Income protection insurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Gym membership
- Learning & development pathways
- Industry events
- Charity events
- Private medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Enhanced parental eave
- Annual leave entitlement
- Employee assistance programme
- Company social events
- Flexible working hours
Company HQ
Milton, UK
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