Open Code Application - Senior, Lead and Director

Rebellion; Runcorn; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

22 days holidays + Christmas closure &

Bank holidays (increasing with service

Private Medical Insurance

Healthcare cash plan, including dental

Life Assurance

Income Protection & Critical Illness

Enhanced Family Leave

Interest Free, Tax-Free loans

Enhanced Pension Scheme

EAP Mental Health & Wellbeing Support

Discounts, freebies, social events

Job summary

Rebellion is seeking Senior, Lead and Director-level coders to join our UK studios, working across areas like AI, animation, tools, and backend. If you are excited by challenging technical problems, collaboration with a talented team, and delivering ambitious, high-quality games, we want to hear from you.

We welcome applicants with strong technical skills, industry experience, and excellent communication, ready to contribute to gameplay systems, engine development, and platform integration

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• From gameplay systems and engine development to tools, optimisation, and platform integration, your expertise could help shape the next generation of player experiences.
• Collaboration with a talented development team to tackle complex technical challenges.

Skills

AI

Animation

Audio

Automation

Backend

DevOps

Gameplay

Networking

Rendering

Tools

Job description

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

We are open to applications from experienced candidates from a wide variety of code disciplines, including (but not limited to):

• 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.

Requirements

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

Benefits

• 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

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.