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Are you an experienced Programmer looking for a new opportunity where you can make a real impact?

We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!

“We are looking for a talented Experienced Programmer to work on Rebellion games as well as trusted industry partners on genre-defining AAA IPs. You will have the opportunity to join an ambitious team working on a range of exciting projects using multiple engines including Unreal 5. Join us as we shoot for the stars!

You will be joining the skilled Rebellion North studio based in our Wakefield Location. Rebellion North are a dynamic and growing team who relish challenges and punching above their weight. Our friendly & inclusive studio culture fosters an environment where all team members can reach their potential in the fastest possible time.”

The Opportunity

We are looking for someone who is passionate about code, who is a creative thinker and enjoys the challenge of providing solid solutions to complex problems. This role involves working across many areas of game development, helping to design, schedule and deliver code with cutting edge technology on all the latest platforms.

As an Experienced Programmer you will be self-motivated with a high level of initiative and able to work unsupervised. The ideal candidate will be able to quickly adapt to and support in-house working practices and assist in mentoring Junior Programmers, as well as the usual responsibilities of an experienced Programmer.

What you’ll be doing:

  • Develop and implement cutting-edge, intuitive solutions for next-gen gameplay, debugging, maintaining, and extending your own and existing code

  • Write robust and maintainable code, optimising code for performance per platform

  • Meet game design and technical requirements as well as internal coding standards, communicating with designers, artists, and other coders to ensure we satisfy game requirements and quality

  • Identify and solve development obstacles or risks that arise, suggesting improvements and implementing solutions to improve performance and reliability

  • Write and maintain technical documentation

  • Research new tools, techniques and processes and feedback to the team on how they can benefit Rebellion

  • Collaborate productively within a large multi-disciplined project team environment, communicating ideas and issues clearly, and supporting all coders on your team as required

  • Be responsive to deadlines and work well under pressure, meeting multiple production objectives and deadlines

Requirements

  • Professional experience in a similar role having published at least one title

  • Excellent C/C++ skills

  • Ability to quickly familiarise yourself to work with a large existing codebase

  • Ability to prototype as well as producing final code

  • Strong debugging, profiling, and optimising, system design and 3D math skills

  • Knowledge of console, general games and/or multiplayer development, and/or development tools such as Visual Studio and Perforce/other version control systems would be an advantage

  • Experience using Unreal experience would be an advantage

  • Deep passion for playing games

Benefits

We offer an extensive benefits package to our team including:

  • 26 days holiday + 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!

About Us

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.

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 and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website.