Hybrid Full Stack Engineer – Core Tech

at Jagex

• Job title: Full Stack Engineer – Core Tech
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, AWS, Azure, Cloud, Java, JavaScript, Microservices, Node.js, React, Spring, Spring Boot, SpringBoot, Terraform, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cambridge, United Kingdom

About the role

• Full Stack Engineer building scalable and secure systems for Jagex, part of Central Technology group. Collaborate with teams delivering high-impact projects across the software development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Contributing to all areas of the Software Development Lifecycle, including secure-by-design coding, automated testing, code review, documentation and deployment.
• Delivering code that meets the code standards, principles and best practices of the department ensuring quality in the work you deliver.
• Contributing to your team or domain by successfully delivering on projects of moderate scope, complexity and critical business impact.
• Contributing to make services monitored, scalable, robust, highly available and performant.
• Working as part of a team to maintain and support highly available software and user journeys.
• Providing on-call support as part of our rota to troubleshoot and resolve out-of-hours production issues.
• Looking for opportunities to improve systems, services, and processes, working with the team to deliver possible improvements.
• Understanding and demonstrating agile principles and values.
• Acts as a role model for more junior engineers, living the company values and behaviours.
• Work as part of a team, ensuring the right balance between product, production and engineering to deliver on business value and demonstrate Jagex values.
• Supporting evaluation of both off-the-shelf and in-house solutions to identify the best fit for the business.

Requirements

• Experience delivering web applications or contributing to large established software projects as an Engineer.
• Proficiency in Java or C#, including experience with backend development and ideally frameworks such as Spring Boot.
• Proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and experience using modern front-end frameworks such as React, Next and Node.
• Experience building and integrating RESTful services and publish-subscribe messaging systems.
• Demonstrable experience with automated testing frameworks (unit, mock, and integration).
• Some knowledge of how AWS Cloud and/or Azure work with a willingness to learn and manage AWS services and IaC tooling such as Terraform.
• Knowledge of version control and CI/CD systems (e.g., Git, Bitbucket Pipelines, Bamboo) and supporting tools such as Ansible and Helm.
• Familiarity with microservices backend architectures.
• Proven strong communication and collaboration skills with both technical and non-technical team members.
• Strong problem-solving, debugging, profiling, and optimisation skills.

Benefits

• 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!