Web Engineer – Project Zanaris

Are you a mid level Web Engineer? Want to work for one of the worlds most successful MMO's? This is an exciting opportunity to help drive the success of Project Zanaris and play a vital part in delivering on our product strategy. This endeavour will see us once again drive groundbreaking MMO features by allowing players to run and customise their own game worlds, becoming the foundation of players creating their own experiences in the game. As a Web Engineer, you will enable our players to access and engage with our games and experiences through online services, refine and maintain live Jagex infrastructure, internal tools and development of new software and features. Being a Engineer at Jagex means you will have support and guidance from some of the best in the industry, providing you with the skills and expertise you will need to take your career to the next level. What you'll be doing: Working as part of a team to maintain and support live, highly available software and player journeys. Contribute to technical discussions and system design, owning small to medium features from technical design through to completion. Constantly look for new opportunities to improve our player experience. Contribute to code reviews, create documentation, technical guidance, and support junior members of the team. Provide on-call support for our web systems allowing our players to be able to play and pay our products always. What we're looking for: Strong understanding of web backend and front end systems. Familiarity with AWS, Lambda and MicroServices architecture. The ability to work to agreed project milestones and timelines. Willingness to learn and develop your skillset. 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! Please note that due to us approaching the Christmas & New Year break, we have many people among the hiring teams who are on annual leave or will be absent due to the studio closing over the holiday period. This means that, in most cases, applications made during December are unlikely to proceed to interview until January 2025. We appreciate your patience during this time. Collaboration is at the heart of Jagex. We love getting together with our teams to share ideas and socialise. 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. 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. Apply for this job

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