Senior Backend Engineer

at  Rebellion

WE WANT YOU TO #JOINTHEREBELLION!

Rebellion North are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer 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 multiple projects using different engines including Unreal 5. Join us as we shoot for the stars!
You will be joining the talented 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.

REQUIREMENTS

• Professional experience of being involved in strategic discussions and decisions.
• Experience with at least one Cloud Provider such as PlayFab/Azure/GCP/AWS.
• Expert in at least one server-side language and framework.
• Proven experience building and running scalable, maintainable and robust microservices.
• Working knowledge of technologies such as Nginx, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Previous games industry experience would be a plus.
• Working knowledge of C++ would be advantageous.

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 make 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 to 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 of our live vacancies: Rebellion: Career

• You will be assisting a team of developers to deliver live services for titles using UE5.
• Plan, research and architect new services based on priorities from stakeholders.
• Working with Design and Network teams to turn feature designs into robust, scalable geolocated services and tools.
• Provide technical leadership by establishing and maintaining best practices across the team.
• Proactively identify and resolve issues in production and development environments.