diff --git a/e2e-tests/cypress/start-e2e-env.sh b/e2e-tests/cypress/start-e2e-env.sh
index ba2b7e0a0..f0ead958e 100755
--- a/e2e-tests/cypress/start-e2e-env.sh
+++ b/e2e-tests/cypress/start-e2e-env.sh
@@ -12,11 +12,5 @@ docker compose up --build migration-runner --exit-code-from migration-runner
 docker compose exec db dropdb -U postgres cypress_test --if-exists --force
 docker compose exec db createdb -U postgres -T etp_dev cypress_test
 
-# Workaround for an apparently random issue when running under GitHub Actions
-# The dependencies of the backend service do not always seem to be built before
-# compose attempts to start the backend service, and that will cause the final
-# `docker compose up` command to fail.
-docker compose build ocsp-responder-root ocsp-responder-int
-
 echo -e "\e[1;33m Waiting for services to be healthy. Can take ~20s. \e[0m"
 docker compose up --build --wait frontend --wait frontend-public --wait backend