Senior Online Developer (JavaScript)

Rebellion; Town of Oxford; On-site; CAD 132,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

22 days holidays

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Enhanced Pension Scheme

EAP & Wellbeing Support

Relocation support

Job summary

Rebellion, a multi-studio game developer, seeks a senior online backend developer to build and support internal and public APIs. You will work across the full SDLC, emphasizing scalable, performant back-end services and tooling for game engine teams. The role is based in Oxford or Warwick with relocation support.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, utilize NodeJS/JS/TS, and deploy robust serverless functions or cloud-based solutions in AWS.

Qualifications

• Back-end senior or lead with experience building performant distributed APIs.
• Experience across full software development lifecycle from requirements to deployment.
• Ability to design and maintain scalable backend systems and tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy web applications to support our in-house engine team.
• Maintain and improve existing tools.
• Develop integrations with third party APIs.
• Support our application deployments.
• Communicating with other teams.

Skills

Backend development

API design

Team collaboration

Requirements gathering

Tools

NodeJS

JavaScript

TypeScript

Vue

React

MySQL

NoSQL

AWS

Git

Perforce

PHP

AWS Lambda

Job description

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

For 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios founded by Jason & Chris Kingsley, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled back-end Senior Online Developer to join our tech team, to help build and support internal and external web APIs to support our game engine team.

The successful candidate will join a small team and user their specialist JavaScript knowledge to be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and system design to implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance. You will be working on building internal tools as well as public facing APIs.

This is primarily a back-end role and we are looking for a talented senior or lead who has experience building performant and distributed backend APIs, and efficiently utilising 3rd party services. They will be comfortable communicating with other teams to fix bugs and resolve issues. This is an excellent opportunity to build exciting business-critical systems from the ground up.

This role can be based at our Oxford or Warwick studios, each offering a creative and relaxed atmosphere where teamwork drives our success. We can provide a relocation package, including movingassistance, temporary accommodation and full support to ensure a smooth transition to yournew environment.

Key Outcomes

• Produce performant and well documented code.
• Successfully develop deploy new tools to support our game teams.
• Responsive to bugs and issues as they arise and providing speedy resolution.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and deploy web applications to support our in-house engine team.
• Maintain and improve existing tools.
• Develop integrations with third party APIs.
• Support our application deployments.
• Communicating with other teams.

• Strong experience with NodeJS, Javascript and TypeScript.
• A knowledge of front end frameworks like Vue and React.
• Strong experience with databases such as MySQL and no SQL database.
• Familiarity with AWS or equivalent cloud environments.

• Strong experience with software development tools and version control systems (Git/Perforce desirable).
• Demonstrated capacity to quickly learn new technologies.
• Comfortable modifying/maintaining applications written in other languages (such as PHP) is desirable.
• Experience writing serverless functions (AWS Lambda/Azure Functions) is a bonus.

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

• 22 days holidays + Christmas closure (typically 4 days)  Bank holidays (increasing with service at 5 years – one day each year until you reach 31 days)
• Private Medical Insurance, healthcare cash plan, including dental and Vision
• Life Assurance, Income Protection & Critical Illness Cover

• Enhanced Family Leave
• Interest Free, Tax-Free loans
• Enhanced Pension Scheme
• EAP a range of Mental Health and Wellbeing Support
• Plus loads more… including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!

Life at Our Oxford HQ

Our riverside headquarters in Oxford places you a short walk away from the city centre. Renowned for its rich historical backdrop and esteemed educational institutions, Oxford offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with its beautiful architecture and green spaces.

Oxford also boasts excellent transport links, making it easy to navigate both the city and the wider country. The city’s train station, just a short walk from our studio, offers frequent services to London, as well as direct routes to major cities like Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading and we also offer free parking at the studio.

Our open-plan office promotes teamwork and innovation, with regular interaction with senior management and other departments, alongside access to free hot drinks, a handy tuck shop onsite and a range of local pubs, cafes and dining options nearby helping make every workday enjoyable!

Inside Rebellion

Whichever team you join at Rebellion we are proud of our open, friendly, and creative atmosphere. We love what we do, and we have fun doing it! As a big indie developer, we have complete creative freedom over our titles which allows us to work on a massive variety of projects across all the major platforms.

Our size, stability, and the variety of in-house expertise across multiple industries, makes Rebellion completely unique! We work in our own way, and we celebrate that as the key to our success. We foster an inclusive culture where you are encouraged to be yourself, to express your creativity and your talent. We are people focused and will support you in every way to can be the best at what you do. We recognise the importance of enjoying what you do and having a healthy work-life balance. We offer a friendly, creative, and relaxed working atmosphere, with sensibly managed projects and a wide variety of benefits and development opportunities for all our teams to ensure you are fully supported with your physical and Mental Well-being.

We are actively recruiting for a diverse team and continue to add to our culture of growth and inclusion. Rebellion encourages innovation in all areas, and we look forward to hearing how you can help us to be better. We encourage all demographics of culture, gender, ethnicity, neurodiversity and beyond, because a representative team makes better products.

Find out more about us here

Right to Work Statement

This role is only open to applicants who have the permanent right to work in the UK. We are unable to provide or take over visa sponsorship, either now or in the future. Applicants must therefore be able to demonstrate their ongoing eligibility to work in the UK without the need for employer sponsorship.

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