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Technical Director - Rendering - UK Based Hybrid/ Remote

Are you an experienced technical leader looking for a new opportunity to lead a high performing team?

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 as long as you are based in the UK, we are always open to discussing how we can support remote and/or Hybrid working options.

The Opportunity

We’re on the lookout for a Technical Director to lead our In-house Engine Rendering Team. The Rebellion Tech team are a team of highly skilled and experienced programmers who develop our inhouse engine, asura with cutting edge technology.

As part of Rebellion’s in house Tech Team, you will play a key role defining and delivering the technology strategy with the focus on creativity to push the boundaries to deliver world class Rendering systems in our in-house Engine. You will have autonomy to decide the direction of the engine in your area as we enhance and expand the features to continue to deliver genuine AAA Experiences to our players.

You will be both a role model and Technical Leader, working with a talented and passionate team to maintain morale and create an atmosphere of creativity and enthusiasm within the team, as well as making decisions on the Technical Direction of the Rendering Systems across all our projects

In this role you will:

• Take a lead role in planning and prioritising work on current and future systems.

• Liaison with game teams and other Tech team departments in regard to feature requests and deliveries
• Proactively monitor, find and address all types of performance issues using IDE Performance Tools.
• Perform code reviews in different areas, spotting bugs, suggesting improvements, and providing constructive feedback
• Build effective working relationships with all stakeholders to analyse and understand requirements, prioritise backlogs and plan future work

Requirements

• Advanced understanding of C++ and software engineering principles
• A solid coding background with a preference to having rendering/graphics expertise
• Experience designing graphics features at a high-level. Expert understanding of the interaction between different rendering stages, and CPU / GPU interaction
  
• Have detailed knowledge of the SDK and Technical requirements across PC and Console platforms
• Expert knowledge of potential pitfalls across a range of platforms and ability to use debugging tools to solve any potential issues.

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 ushere

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 we 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, neuro-diversity 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 : Careers

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!