Game Systems Engineer

Want to work on key key technical initiatives like bringing the game to new platforms and audiences?

Working as part of a passionate and cross-disciplinary agile team, you will be integral to the development and delivery of the Old School RuneScape product roadmap.

What we're looking for:

• Programming using Java, C++ and other languages as required to service assigned and scheduled tasks.
• Working on a variety of projects in the department covering all aspects of the group’s technological domain, making good use of support tools (e.g. profiler, debugger, code-analysis tools) to ensure your code is of high quality.
• Taking ownership and responsibility for areas of the code base, becoming an expert, looking for improvements and sharing that knowledge with the team
• Performing maintenance tasks to keep internal tools and build systems working in good order for our internal customers.
• Providing realistic time estimates for assigned tasks to stakeholders, with tasks broken down to a suitable size.
• Suggesting and championing projects or processes that drive the department tech and team forward.
• Contributing to overall project strategy. Be willing to put forward ideas, and to positively/constructively critique those put forward by others.
• Build strong working relationships with team members and with other groups across the organisation, especially within Old School RuneScape.

What you'll need:

• Highly proficient in Java, comfortable working with other programming and scripting languages (e.g. C++, Lua, Python) as required.
• Experience working on backend systems/server architecture as a software engineer/developer.
• A passion for innovating solutions and solving problems in a unique technology stack.
• Ability to work well in a team and with others, good communication skills are essential.
• Relevant qualification at degree level or equivalent experience.

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.