Jagex - Full Stack Engineer - 12 Month FTC

AI Engineer is needed in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Client: Jagex

Location: Cambridge, United Kingdom

Contract: Full-time

Job Description

Jagex has an exciting opportunity for a Junior Full-stack Engineer to join our tooling team. Your mission? To help craft and maintain the tools and infrastructure that supercharge the Games Operations department (Player Support, Anti-Cheat & Localisation). We’re a Scrum team of 7 people, composed of Full-stack Engineers as well as a Researcher and Analyst, working closely with other teams at Jagex to deliver the company vision.

The role will involve collaborating with Engineers to create various workflows and systems such as applications, APIs, and scheduled data ingestions. You may also contribute to managing systems architecture and infrastructure.

What you’ll be doing includes:

• Contributing to key department initiatives.
• Developing small features independently in Java and TypeScript and collaborating with Senior Engineers on moderate-sized features.
• Creating and maintaining services, applications, and data ingestions as your primary output.
• Using CI/CD to contribute to projects as part of a team.
• Engaging in the development process by contributing code through pull requests.
• Embracing constructive feedback during regular code reviews to enhance skills and code quality.
• Participating in technical discussions to shape both design and implementation.
• Attending Agile Scrum meetings to help plan tasks within your domain.

Requirements

We’re looking for candidates with:

• At least 1-2 years of experience as a full-stack engineer.
• Experience working with different programming languages, ideally spanning both front-end and back-end technologies.
• A passion for technology and a strong willingness to learn.
• An understanding of agile principles and values, with the ability to put them into practice.
• A proactive mindset, focused on enhancing the customer experience.
• A person who thrives in a cross-functional environment and embraces new challenges.

Tech stack familiarity includes:

• Java with Spring Boot
• JavaScript with React & TypeScript
• CSS
• Python
• Docker
• Snowflake
• AWS
• Terraform

Testing frameworks experience includes:

• Frontend - Jest and React Testing Library
• Backend - JUnit, Mockito

Benefits

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!

Company Culture

Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialize. If you live in the UK, we offer a flexible working model that empowers you to work in the way that suits you best. We support you to be set up for success no matter where you log in.

Flexibility is key to our working schedules; we’ll discuss your needs with you and be transparent about the working schedules during the interview process.

About Jagex

Jagex is a thriving international games company with a growing library of forever game IPs for core gamers. We redefine expectations for what evergreen success looks like and empower our players with real influence on game evolution, creating loyal forever fans.

Our mission is to create forever fans by empowering our community and providing experiences worthy of long-term time investment. If you share our values and ambition, we’d love to talk to you.

If you’re worried you don’t meet all the requirements, your attitude, fresh perspective, and experience are just as important to us. If you think this could be the perfect job for you, let’s talk.