Senior Online Developer - Tech Team

TN United Kingdom; Runcorn; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative gaming company is seeking a Senior Online Developer to join their tech team in Runcorn. This role focuses on building and supporting internal and external web APIs for a dynamic game engine team. You'll have the opportunity to work in a collaborative environment, utilizing your expertise in back-end development and API creation. The company values flexibility and offers a relocation package, ensuring a smooth transition for new team members. Join a creative and friendly atmosphere where your contributions will directly impact exciting projects across various platforms.

Benefits

22 days holidays + Christmas closure

Private Medical Insurance

Life Assurance

Enhanced Family Leave

Interest Free Loans

Enhanced Pension Scheme

Mental Health Support

Discounts and freebies

Social events

Qualifications

• Experience in back-end development with a focus on API creation.
• Strong knowledge of database management systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build web applications for the in-house engine team.
• Maintain existing tools and develop integrations with third-party APIs.

Skills

Back-end Development

API Development

Database Management (MySQL, NoSQL)

Front-end Frameworks (Vue, React)

AWS or equivalent cloud environments

Version Control Systems (Git/Perforce)

Serverless Functions (AWS Lambda/Azure Functions)

PHP

Problem-solving

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Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

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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.

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 exciting opportunity can be based out of any of our studios in Oxford, Warwick, or Runcorn, offering flexibility, collaboration, and the chance to work with a world-class team! We can provide a relocation package, including moving assistance, temporary accommodation, and full support to ensure a smooth transition to your new environment.

We believe in the power of face-to-face collaboration and encourage working from our studios. However, we understand that flexibility matters, so we’re open to discussing hybrid options based on individual needs.

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.
• Communicating with other teams.

Requirements

• 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!

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.