Location: Cambridge, UK – (Remote available within the UK with team onsite days in the Cambridge office approx. 4 times per year)
Are you an experienced Gameplay Programmer with professional experience using the Unreal engine who enjoys collaborating with designers, animators and the wider team to help build a rich immersive world on a brand-new game with a hugely popular IP?
As a Senior Gameplay Programmer on RuneScape Dragonwilds, our new open world survival crafting game, currently in early access and being developed in UE5; You will utilise your expertise with C++/Unreal to help your team to create and implement complex gameplay features for this new multiplayer experience in the RuneScape universe.
This is a hugely impactful role within the team where you will work closely with peers and the wider production and development team to innovate and create a deeply connected and exciting gameplay experience.
What you’ll be doing:
- Create, maintain and update a wide variety of gameplay features.
- Select the best technical solutions, architectures and pipelines for each task.
- Collaborate with designers and artists to form strike teams with strong outputs.
- Test, debug, profile and optimise the title to deliver polished games.
- Identify risks and opportunities presented during the development of the game, providing solutions to resolve potentially complex problems.
- Support, mentor and share best practice with more junior engineers and your peers.
What we’re looking for:
- Experience working in UE4 or UE5 C++ in a professional setting.
- Expertise in designing and implementing complex gameplay features for a multiplayer game.
- Strong understanding of game design and a player-focused mindset.
- In-depth knowledge of C++ with an ability to apply this experience with other programming languages (c#, python, etc).
- Proven experience working closely with non-engineering stakeholders and communicating technical solutions in an easy-to-understand manner.
- Knowledgeable in profiling and optimising code.
- Proven ability to design complex systems using appropriate patterns, solving architectural and system-level problems.
- Good knowledge of source code repository usage (Perforce or similar).
- Demonstrable ability to mentor others and contributing to the team’s continuous improvement by sharing and refining best practices.
- At ease with independence and ownership, allowing yourself to co-organise your own strike team and allocate resources intelligently.
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 +
