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Junior Back-end Engineer - 5 month FTC

Jagex has an exciting opportunity for a Junior Back-end Engineer to join our internal tooling team for a 5-month maternity cover. Your mission? To help craft and maintain the tools and infrastructure that supercharge the Games Operations department (Player Support, Localisation, Quality Assurance and External Services).

We’re a small Scrum team of 7 people, made up of front-end and Back-end engineers as well as User Experience specialists. The role will involve working closely with our Senior Back-end Engineer to create a variety of systems such as applications, APIs and scheduled data ingestions. You may also contribute to managing the systems architecture and infrastructure.

What you'll be doing:

• Develop small features independently in Java and collaborate with our Senior Back-end Engineer on moderate-sized features
• Your primary output will be creating and maintaining internal services, applications and data ingestions

• Use CI/CD to contribute to a project as part of a team

• Engage in the development process by actively contributing code through pull requests
• Embrace constructive feedback provided during regular code reviews to enhance your skills and the overall code quality and maintainability of our tools
• Participate in technical discussions and offer ideas to shape the design and implementation of new Back-end tools
• Attend Agile Scrum meetings to help plan tasks within your domain
• Contribute to our key 2024 team initiative to expand tools and systems support to additional teams within the department.

What we're looking for:

• Experience in Java with Springboot.
• Experience or interest in Python, AWS and Docker
• Passionate about technology and a willingness to learn.
• The ability to understands and demonstrates agile principles and values.
• Constantly looking for new opportunities to continuously develop our customer experience.

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 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.