Senior Full Stack Engineer - RuneScape Franchise

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Are you an experienced Full Stack Engineer? Could you be passionate about building immersive experiences for millions of players around the world? Do you want to work on a platform that connects our incredible RuneScape and Old School RuneScape communities?

We're looking for a skilled Full-Stack Engineer to join our RuneScape Franchise team, driving innovation on our websites, desktop game launcher, and storefronts.

This is your chance to make a real impact on an iconic gaming franchise. You'll be at the heart of a dynamic team where innovation is encouraged, and your work will be seen and used by millions of players every day. If you're excited about building engaging experiences for our players, we'd love to hear from you!

Our Teck Stack:

• Frontend & Backend Frameworks: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js
• Cloud Infrastructure: AWS, Vercel, Cloudflare
• Desktop Applications: Electron, CEF
• Testing Tools: Jest, Playwright
• Serverless Architecture: AWS Lambda, EventBridge, Step Functions, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Functions
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK

What you'll be doing:

• Lead the functional and technical analysis, design, development, and testing of large-scale product features.
• Build and maintain high-throughput, reliable, and secure systems that support the RuneScape player community.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams in a Scrum environment to deliver new features and improvements.
• Shorten feedback cycles through continuous integration and deployment best practices.
• Shape the technical direction of the team and help define department-wide technical principles.

What you'll need:

• Web Performance Expertise: Understanding page performance/budgets.
• Node.js & TypeScript Mastery: Deep knowledge of Node.js and TypeScript.
• REST/GraphQL Expertise: Familiarity with well-structured REST or GraphQL APIs.
• Framework Experience: Ideally familiar with React/Next.js or similar frameworks. Knowledge of rendering strategies (SSR, SSG, SPA) is a big plus.
• Cloud & Serverless Expertise: Experience with AWS serverless technologies. Familiarity with Vercel or Cloudflare Workers/Pages is a plus.
• Event-Driven Architecture: Strong understanding of event-driven design.
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience using AWS CDK, Terraform, or CloudFormation for configuration, deployment and monitoring.

What we offer:

When you join Jagex you can look forward to a generous Perks & Benefits package including:

• Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan,
• Minimum 6% Pension contributions
• Employee Assistance Programme & onsite Counselling
• Life Insurance
• Discretionary annual performance bonus
• Enhanced family leave policies from day 1
• Flexible working hours
• 25 days annual leave + Bank holidays & the option to buy/sell holidays + so much more!

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise. If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best, while also getting the best from your working relationship with all the great people you'll be connecting with here. We support you to be set up for success no matter where in the UK you log in.

Flexibility really is the key to how we set up working schedules, we'll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules of the team you'll be working with during our interview process.

About Jagex:

Make forever games with us.

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We have such huge expertise at running games for the long term that we re-define expectations for what evergreen success looks like.

We create spaces for our players to come together - with each other and with us - inside and outside of our games. We empower our players with real influence on the game's evolution. We help our players belong. Our community experiences give players a greater stake in what they're playing, creating loyal forever fans.

These strengths inform our vision of our studio as a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. Our forever games will nurture sizable communities whose loyalty provides consistent revenues.

This in turn drives our mission: We create forever fans by empowering our community. We give players experiences worthy of their long-term time investment and actively collaborate with them to shape the games and the community for the better.

If this is something you want to be a part of, get in touch.

We have 500 of the industry's most talented individuals in our Cambridge studio; if you share our values and ambition, we'd love to talk to you. Worried you don't meet all the requirements in the spec? Your attitude, fresh perspective and experience is just as important to us; if you think this could be the perfect job for you, let's talk.