Open Code Application - Senior, Lead and Director

Rebellion; Oxford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

22 days holidays

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Enhanced pension

Mental health support

Discounts & social events

Job summary

Rebellion is hiring senior, lead and director-level coders to join our team. You’ll tackle complex technical challenges across gameplay systems, engines, tools and platform integration.

We value strong technical skills, collaboration, and a passion for video games. You’ll work with a talented development team across multiple studios to shape the next generation of player experiences.

Qualifications

• Strong technical skillset with professional game industry experience.
• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities.
• Passion for video games and development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and influence the technical direction for senior, lead and director roles.
• Collaborate with multi-studio teams across platforms to ship features.
• Contribute to engine development, tooling, optimisation and platform integration.

Skills

AI

Animation

Backend

DevOps

Gameplay

Networking

Rendering

Tools

Automation

Audio

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 arealways looking for talented Senior, Lead and Director-level coders to join us here at Rebellion.

• AI
• Animation
• Audio
• Automation
• Backend
• DevOps
• Gameplay
• Networking
• Rendering
• Tools

Whether you are a seasoned game developer, technical specialist or industry veteran, we would love to see your work. If you are excited by the opportunity to collaborate with a talented development team, tackle complex technical challenges and help create ambitious, high-quality games, we encourage you to apply. From gameplay systems and engine development to tools, optimisation, and platform integration, your expertise could help shape the next generation of player experiences. Your next great game development challenge could start here.

The technical requirements will depend on the kind of role you are looking for, but often this will include:

• A strong technical skillset.
• Strong professional experience working in the games industry.
• Strong communication and teamworking skills.
• Passion for video games and game development.

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!

Right to Work Statement

Our roles are 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.

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.

Find out more about us here

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.

If you are interested in working at Rebellion, but this role doesn’t sound quite like you, we’re recruiting for a range of positions across the studio

#LI-Hybrid