Jagex Limited seeks a Lead Full Stack Engineer to champion our technology principles by guiding and supporting engineers through mentoring and development planning. You will act as the primary technical contact for product and production teams, responsible for enhancing the player experience from initial visit to engaging with our games.
What You'll Do
- Contribute to all areas of the Software Development Lifecycle, including writing secure, production-ready code, automated testing, code review, and deployment.
- Work with Lead Engineers, Principal Engineers and the Technical Director to set code, automation, API, cloud infrastructure and system design standards for the department.
- Take technical accountability for the team’s output and its continued excellence in all technology areas.
- Lead the delivery of complex engineering projects, collaborating with other Leads, architects and principal engineers.
- Support engineers in breaking down work into manageable, estimable stories that deliver product value within the sprint.
- Deliver solutions to complex engineering challenges and incidents for your team.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve systems, services, and processes and collaborate across teams to deliver improvement.
- Proactively contribute to Discipline Crafts and support their continued improvement.
- Provide On-Call support to troubleshoot and resolve out-of-hours production issues.
- Act as a role model for engineers, living the company values and behaviours.
- Handle recruitment responsibilities.
- Be responsible for the growth of engineers through coaching, mentoring, setting objectives, and providing constructive feedback.
- Perform skill gap analyses and facilitate training mechanisms to ensure engineers have required skills.
- Facilitate the procurement of new software and tooling where needed.
- Work as part of the leadership team to balance product, production, and engineering to deliver business value.
What We're Looking For
- Extensive experience leading engineering teams to deliver games or large software projects.
- Proficiency in Java and understanding of its ecosystem with experience in Java backend development.
- Demonstrable ability to mentor others and contribute to the team’s continuous improvement by sharing and refining best practices.
- Proven experience working closely with non-engineering stakeholders and communicating technical solutions in an easy-to-understand manner.
- Proven ability to design complex systems using appropriate patterns, solving architectural and system-level problems to high quality standards.
- Experience working on established code bases.
- Analytical mind and strong problem-solving skills.
- Solid debugging, profiling and code optimization skills.
- Good knowledge of version control and CI/CD systems like GIT, Perforce, Bamboo.
Technical Stack
- Java
- GIT
- Perforce
- Bamboo
Team & Environment
You will be part of the Player Gateway team within the Central Technology organisation, working with other Lead Engineers, Principal Engineers, the Technical Director, product, and production teams.
Benefits & Compensation
- 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.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid role based in Cambridge, UK.
Company Culture
We Embrace Fellowship by collaborating and sharing openly. We Hone our Craft by always learning and improving. We Honour our Vows by being honest and transparent. We are our Customers’ Heroes by striving to understand our team & player needs. We Seize The Day by making the most of every opportunity.
Jagex Limited is an equal opportunity employer.
