Programming Intern

As a Programming Intern, you will collaborate with experienced professionals, build practical skills, and contribute to real projects at Rebellion's headquarters in Oxford. This internship focuses on professional engineering practices, including production workflows, agile methodologies, version control, code reviews, and continuous integration. You will learn performance profiling, systematic debugging, and how to write maintainable code, contributing to gameplay systems or build and automation teams.

Must Have

• Undergraduate student from Wadham or St John’s Colleges at the University of Oxford
• Available from 6 July to 28 August
• Demonstrated enthusiasm for the gaming industry
• Strong interest in understanding the game development process
• Foundation in core Computer Science (problem-solving, debugging, object-oriented programming)
• Familiarity with C/C++ and/or Python
• Right to work in the UK for the duration of the internship
• Applications must be submitted by Sunday, 18 January

Perks & Benefits

• Creative and relaxed headquarters along the Oxford riverside
• Open-plan office promoting teamwork and innovation
• Regular interaction with senior management and other departments
• Access to free hot drinks
• Handy tuck shop onsite
• Range of local pubs, cafes and dining options nearby
• Free parking at the studio
• Open, friendly, and creative atmosphere
• Complete creative freedom over titles
• Work on a massive variety of projects across all major platforms
• Inclusive culture
• Support for physical and Mental Well-being
• Healthy work-life balance
• Sensibly managed projects
• Wide variety of benefits and development opportunities

Description

This opportunity is open exclusively to undergraduate students from Wadham and St John’s Colleges at the University of Oxford. Applicants must be available from 6 July to 28 August, with applications due by Sunday, 18 January.

For 30 years we’ve been independently developing and publishing incredible video games at our multiple studios, but Rebellion is more than just games. We have our own film studio, we create board games, publish books, and through 2000AD, publish comics and graphic novels such as the amazing Judge Dredd.

As a Programming Intern, you’ll collaborate with experienced professionals, build practical skills, and contribute to real projects at our creative and relaxed headquarters along the Oxford riverside.

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.

What you’ll do & learn

• How professional engineering teams ship features using production workflows and agile practices.
• Best practices for version control, code reviews, continuous integration, and documenting work.
• Communicating status, estimating tasks, and translating playtest/design feedback into technical changes.
• Fundamentals of performance profiling, systematic debugging, and writing maintainable code.

From the Gameplay Teams:

• Designing gameplay systems and writing efficient C/C++ OOP code in-engine.
• Preventing regressions with testing habits and meeting studio coding standards.
• Prioritising bugs/features and collaborating with Design and QA.

From the Build & Automation Teams:

• CI/CD concepts, automated testing, and build orchestration.
• Using Python to create tooling and improve content pipelines.
• Monitoring, metrics, and reliability practices that improve developer workflows.

Requirements

• Internships are exclusively accessible to undergraduate students from Wadham and St John's Colleges at Oxford University.
• Available for attendance from 6 July – 28 August.
• Demonstrated enthusiasm for the gaming industry coupled with a strong interest in understanding the game development process.
• Foundation in core CS from your degree: problem-solving, debugging, and object-oriented programming.
• Familiarity with C/C++, and/or Python - used in modules, labs, or side projects.
• Right to work in the UK for the duration of the internship.
• All applications must be submitted by Sunday, 18 January.

Benefits

Life at Our Oxford HQ

Our riverside headquarters in Oxford places you a short walk away from the city centre. Renowned for its rich historical backdrop and esteemed educational institutions, Oxford offers a unique blend of tradition and modernity, with its beautiful architecture and green spaces.

Oxford also boasts excellent transport links, making it easy to navigate both the city and the wider country. The city’s train station, just a short walk from our studio, offers frequent services to London, as well as direct routes to major cities like Birmingham, Manchester, and Reading and we also offer free parking at the studio.

Our open-plan office promotes teamwork and innovation, with regular interaction with senior management and other departments, alongside access to free hot drinks, a handy tuck shop onsite and a range of local pubs, cafes and dining options nearby helping make every workday enjoyable!

Inside Rebellion

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.

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 and to express your creativity and your talent. We are people-focused and will support you in every way 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.