Senior Full Stack Engineer

1 Month ago • 6-8 Years • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Jagex's Publishing Platform team seeks a Senior Full Stack Engineer to lead development of new payment features. Responsibilities include functional and technical analysis, design, programming, testing, and maintenance of large product features; creating high-throughput, reliable, and secure systems; collaborating with Engineering Managers to build team skills; working in a Scrum environment; utilizing CI/CD to shorten feedback cycles; and mentoring junior engineers. The ideal candidate will have strong Java/Spring Boot, Postgres, TypeScript/React/Next.js/Node.js, and DevOps experience.
Must have:
  • Strong Java & Spring Boot microservices
  • Experience with Postgres and REST APIs
  • Proficient in TypeScript, React, Redux
  • DevOps experience and CI/CD pipeline creation
Perks:
  • Private Healthcare (Dental Plan)
  • Pension Contributions (min 6%)
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Life Insurance
  • Annual Performance Bonus
  • Enhanced Family Leave
  • Flexible Working Hours
  • 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays

Job Details

Description

Are you a Senior Full Stack Engineer? Does working in a games company that delivers one of the worlds leading MMO's sound appealing?

Jagex's Publishing Platform department is responsible for player accounts, payments and distribution of games, published by Jagex.

We are strengthening our multi-skilled team to deliver new payment features on the platform. These include new integrations with payment providers, supporting game promotions or campaigns and modernizing the technology to take full advantage of the cloud.

This is an exciting opportunity to be working on enterprise level, scalable systems, alongside a team of experienced Engineers in a company with a strong, supportive culture.

Technology Stack:

  • Java / Spring Boot – microservices
  • Postgres / Redis / ElasticSearch – persistence
  • Kafka – events
  • TypeScript / React / Next.js / Node.js – app framework
  • Mobx / Redux – state management
  • GitHub / BitBucket – CI/CD
  • AWS / Vercel – cloud
  • Kubernetes – containerisation
  • Terraform / Helm – infrastructure as code

What you'll be doing:

  • Lead functional and technical analysis, design, programming, testing and maintenance of large product features
  • Create high throughput, reliable and secure systems by exploiting existing and emerging technology and processes
  • Work closely with the Engineering Managers to build the skillset of Jagex Engineers
  • Work with a cross-functional team in a Scrum environment
  • Utilize your existing experience of continuous integration and deployment to shorten feedback cycles
  • Play an active role in shaping the department’s technical principles
  • Mentor and coach Engineers at Jagex

What you'll need:

  • Strong skills in Java and Spring Boot microservices
  • Skilled in using relational DBs, especially Postgres
  • High level knowledge of designing and using REST APIs e.g. OAuth2
  • Experience using TypeScript, React, Express and Redux
  • Familiar working in a DevOps culture
  • Experience creating CI / CD pipelines and associated build & deployment tools

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. 

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About The Company

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.

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