Senior Gameplay Engineer - RuneScape Dragonwilds

Are you an experienced Gameplay Programmer who enjoys collaborating with designers, animators and the wider team to help build a rich immersive experience on a brand-new game with a hugely popular IP? As a Senior Gameplay Engineer on this unannounced project being developed in UE5, you will utilise your expertise with C++ 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 complex problems.
• Support, mentor and share best practice with more junior engineers and your peers.

What we’re looking for:

• 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.
• Experience working in UE4 or UE5 C++.

What we offer:

• 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 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.