Tools Programmer - Hybrid/Flexible
Rebellion, United Kingdom
Job Description
Are you an experienced Tools Programmer looking for a new opportunity where you can make a real impact?
We want you to #JOINTHEREBELLION!
For 30 years we’ve been creating incredible video games at our multiple studios, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film and mo-cap studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.
We operate across multiple UK locations, with studios based in Oxford, Warwick, Liverpool, and Wakefield. Work-life balance is important to us, and we want everyone at Rebellion to work in the way that works best for them. So, if you are based in the UK, we are always open to discussing how we can support remote and/or Hybrid working options.
We are on the lookout for Tools Programmer to join our Core Tech Team, working on the in-house engine and editing tools used across the majority of Rebellion projects.
Candidates should have an understanding of content creation workflows and creating editor UI, and be enthusiastic about engaging with our content creators to create and improve workflows. They will also be helping to develop our editor frameworks and data management systems.
Responsibilities
- Maintain and develop the toolset framework which underpins our content editing application, which others build upon to develop content creation tools
- Collaborate with content creators to write some of those tools as well as providing support to other engine teams and game teams
- Collaborate with other team members from all disciplines and foster a positive team culture
- Have responsibility for one or more areas of the code, maintaining backlogs of related issues and reviewing with stakeholders the priorities and progress in that area
- Review code and designs of other members of the team to give constructive feedback.
Requirements
- Experience with UI patterns such as MVVM, MVP or MVC, and event propagation through UI
- Familiar with approaches to ensure consistent UX across a large toolset
- Understands and applies techniques to create extensible, future-proof solutions
- Familiar with some content-creation workflows
- Experience with import/export processes to transform data between two data formats
- Professional experience using C++
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 amp; 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.
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 and we’re always happy to receive speculative applications via our website. Visit our Careers website to view all our live vacancies: Rebellion: Careers