Experienced JavaScript Developer
RebellionOxford, England, United Kingdom
Posted March 10, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Rebellion, founded in 1992, is one of Europe’s largest independent multimedia studios, headquartered in Oxford. The company excels in developing and publishing high‑profile video games—best known for the realistic stealth‑sniping of Sniper Elite, the cinematic horror of Aliens vs. Predator, and the action‑packed Zombie Army series—while also producing books, graphic novels, board games, and interactive media. Its acquisition of a $100 million film studio and ownership of the world’s largest archive of English‑language comics, including the iconic 2000 AD line, reinforce its cross‑media strategy and creative depth. Rebellion’s reputation for delivering immersive, genre‑defining experiences across games, comics, and film distinguishes it as a versatile, innovation‑driven leader in the entertainment industry.
Job Description
We are seeking an experienced JavaScript Developer (Full Stack) to join our Code team, to help build and support internal and external web applications and APIs to support our game engine team. The successful candidate will join a small team and use their specialist JavaScript knowledge to be involved in the entire software development lifecycle, from requirements gathering and system design to implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
Requirements
- Produce performant and well-documented code.
- Successfully develop and deploy new tools to support our game teams.
- Responsive to bugs and issues as they arise and providing speedy resolution.
- Design, build, and deploy web applications to support our in-house engine team.
- Maintain and improve existing tools.
- Develop integrations with third-party APIs.
- Support our application deployments.
- Communicate with other teams.
- Experience with NodeJS, Javascript, and TypeScript.
- A knowledge of front-end frameworks like Vue and React.
- Experience with databases such as MySQL and NoSQL database.
- Familiarity with AWS or equivalent cloud environments.
- 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.
Benefits
- 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
- Loads more... including a wide range of discounts, freebies, and social events!
