Junior Build Engineer – Tech Team

Type: Trainee
Region: London

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 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 and Liverpool. 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 flexible/hybrid working options. 

Are you a Junior Build Engineer looking for the opportunity to make a real impact in an exciting industry?

We are looking for someone like you to become our all-new Junior Build Engineer and join our passionate and talented team, where we are building on the years of success that Rebellion has enjoyed.

Working closely with our highly talented in-house tech team, you will assist in working on our in-house game engine, Asura. The successful candidate will help maintain and improve our internal build, test, and asset processing systems.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in developing and improving automation solutions.
• Help enhance developer workflows.
• Support in extending and improving existing build processes and systems.
• Diagnose and fix errors that occur in developer or continuous integration workflows with guidance.
• Maintain and improve existing tools written in Python and other scripting languages.
• Analyse, communicate, and assist with build results and issues.
• Contribute to improving continuous integration processes (e.g., using Jenkins).
• Research new tools, techniques, and processes that can benefit Rebellion and our games.

• Strong interest in debugging and problem-solving.
• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages such as Python and C++.
• Good initiative, self-motivation, and organisational skills, with the ability to collaborate productively within larger multi-disciplined project team environments.
• Good interpersonal communication skills are essential.
• A logical and technical mind with the ability to break down problems and create effective solutions.
• A passion to develop, maintain and further our build systems and tools to improve the quality and ease for our game teams.

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!  

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  

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: