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Web Developer- UK Based - Hybrid/Flexible
2 years ago
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.
As our latest Web Developer role you will join our dedicated Web team, who are responsible for building and supporting our public facing websites and our comic reader hybrid mobile apps. You will be joining a team focused on moving us away from WordPress by developing new websites in JavaScript to support our game releases and our publishing business.
You will be experienced in developing websites in a JavaScript framework and preferably have experience of writing automated tests for your code.
As part of the Web team, you will play a key role in improving our websites and apps, supporting our move to JavaScript and implementing new features that support the growth of the Rebellion Brand and its increasingly diverse range of products.
Key Outcomes:
- Delivery of high quality, efficient JavaScript code that meets the agreed coding standards
- Successful delivery of accessible web sites and hybrid mobile apps
- Ability to understand stakeholder requirements and problems, and deliver high quality solutions
Able to work effectively as part of an agile team, sharing knowledge and experience
- Improving the overall quality of the web sites, hybrid apps and the speed of new feature delivery
- Playing a key role in moving the company from WordPress websites to a Vue.js based approach
Responsibilities:
- Developing new Websites and Hybrid Mobile Apps in HTML, CSS and Vue.JS to agreed coding standards and quality
- Building sites and templates that are accessible and mobile friendly
- Create and maintain new reusable code libraries and templates
- Designing and recommending technical solutions for new projects and features
- Updating and enforcing coding standards
- Writing, maintaining and improving automated code tests and coverage
- Assisting with build and deployment activities
- Work to project deadlines and pro-actively communicate actual and potential issues and progress blocker.
Requirements
- Commercial experience of building accessible & reflowable external facing websites for Desktop and Mobile use
- Able to communicate technical concerns to both developers and stakeholders
- Experience in JavaScript development and frameworks
- Highly motivated, approachable, initiative taking developer
- Able to produce and maintain high quality HTML, CSS and JavaScript code
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 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, 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!
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