Full Stack Engineer, Jagex
Core Tech
+ Discretionary annual performance bonus
Video game studio
Job no longer available
Video game studio
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
+ 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 established software systems in production environments
- Strong backend development experience in Java, including frameworks such as Spring Boot
- Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks such as React, Next or Node
- Experience building and integrating RESTful services within microservices architectures
- Familiarity with AWS cloud services and infrastructure-as-code tooling such as Terraform
- Strong debugging, profiling and performance optimisation capability across full stack systems
What the job involves
- Are you a full stack engineer who thrives on building scalable, high-performance systems that power critical player journeys?
- As a Full Stack Engineer in our Subscriptions and Payments team, you’ll help build and maintain the systems that enable players to purchase digital goods and subscriptions across the RuneScape franchise
- From highly available backend services to seamless frontend experiences, your work will directly support millions of player transactions worldwide
- Working within a domain of significant business impact, you’ll contribute to secure, robust and scalable services while supporting junior engineers and continuously improving the reliability and performance of our subscription and payment platforms
- Contribute across the full Software Development Lifecycle, delivering secure-by-design code supported by automated testing, peer review, documentation and deployment
- Build and maintain backend services using Java and Spring Boot within a microservices architecture
- Develop frontend applications using JavaScript/TypeScript and modern frameworks such as React, Next and Node
- Design and integrate RESTful APIs and publish-subscribe messaging systems
- Ensure services are monitored, scalable, highly available and performant
- Maintain and support production systems, including participation in an on-call rotation
- Contribute to system improvements, performance optimisation and architectural enhancements
- Evaluate and implement off-the-shelf and in-house technical solutions where appropriate
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 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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