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.
Top Skills
What We Do
A leader in creating deep and engaging forever games on PC, Console & Mobile that empower our communities. Jagex was founded in 2001 and is today one of the UK’s biggest and most respected video game developers and publishers.
Famed for its flagship MMOs RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, Jagex has welcomed more than 300 million player accounts to its world and created a $1bn lifetime franchise revenue. Today the RuneScape franchise exists beyond running games in live operations; our titles are forever games that connect and inspire millions of players, with content and experiences both inside and outside of inexhaustible game worlds.
Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, on PC and mobile, offer ever-evolving, highly-active worlds and our community-focused development ethos empowers players to have a real say in how each game is shaped.
Jagex has added to its skill set with the acquisitions of Pipeworks and Gamepires in 2022, bringing our expertise to titles such as SCUM, helping to make SCUM a forever game. It also works with external partners on products such as Melvor Idle and This Means Warp; bringing these titles to new and existing audiences.
Jagex employs more than 600 people at its Cambridge headquarters and around the world at Pipeworks in North America, and Gamepires in Europe. We’re always on the hunt for talented people to work across the business, to help the company to achieve its goals.
