Jagex

Technical Director – RuneScape, Dragonwilds

Jagex

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Cambridge • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

Unreal Engine

About the role

  • Establish and drive the technical vision for RuneScape: Dragonwilds, aligned with creative direction, world-building goals, and long-term live-service strategy.
  • Define architectural principles, technology choices, and best practices supporting a large-scale online RPG built in Unreal Engine 5.
  • Ensure engineering focus is aligned with the highest-impact areas for stability, scalability, and long-term growth.
  • Build, lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing engineering team passionate about the RuneScape universe.
  • Line manage engineering leaders and contributors as required, providing coaching, feedback, and career development support.
  • Foster an inclusive, collaborative culture that values ownership, innovation, and continuous improvement.
  • Partner with HR and Talent Acquisition on recruitment, succession planning, and capability development.
  • Work closely with production to plan engineering delivery, manage risks, and align milestones with gameplay and live-ops needs.
  • Build and maintain a transparent, adaptable technical roadmap supporting ongoing content updates and system evolution.
  • Advocate for engineering needs during planning, ensuring technical health, performance targets, and operational resilience.
  • Guarantee the stability, performance, maintainability, and scalability of Dragonwilds across PC and future platforms.
  • Apply live-game expertise to support continuous content delivery and long-term system evolution.
  • Guide engineers across multiple technical domains, offering constructive feedback beyond your direct specialism.
  • Promote modern development practices, strong code quality, and efficient workflows aligned with studio standards.
  • Partner with Jagex senior leadership to align Dragonwilds with wider studio goals, technology strategy, and franchise initiatives.
  • Represent Dragonwilds engineering across leadership, product, and craft forums within Jagex.

Requirements

  • Extensive end-to-end experience shipping AAA PC or console titles, ideally including live-service or large-scale online games.
  • Deep professional expertise with Unreal Engine and C++.
  • Strong background developing or operating long-lived online worlds, ideally within MMORPGs or related genres.
  • Experience managing complex co-development or outsourcing pipelines for large-scale content production.
  • Proven ability to lead and grow multidisciplinary technology teams through production and live phases.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, with confidence influencing senior stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated success improving pipelines, processes, and workflows across cross-functional teams.
  • A servant-leader mindset that empowers teams, supports well-being, and inspires creative excellence.
  • A passion for delivering exceptional player experiences and contributing to the evolution of the RuneScape franchise.
Benefits
  • Private Healthcare, including Dental Plan.
  • Minimum 6% Pension contributions.
  • 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!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Unreal Engine 5C++large-scale online RPG developmentlive-service game expertisecode qualitydevelopment practicescontent production pipelinessystem evolutiontechnical roadmap developmentperformance targets
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcoachingcommunicationcollaborationinfluencingservant-leader mindsetteam empowermentcreative excellencecontinuous improvement