Remote Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Immersive Labs is a fast-growing cybersecurity company in the UK that helps organizations assess, build, and prove their cyber workforce resilience. They are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join their Engineering team and contribute to building their learning platform. The role involves architecting and delivering step changes to the product, designing and maintaining efficient codebase, ensuring quality, working on all parts of the system landscape, and collaborating with other engineers.

Requirements

• You have extensive experience in building complex web applications or similar software
• You are willing and able to work with different programming languages and technology stacks
• The main parts of our system landscape are a Ruby on Rails back end, a React/Typescript front end, a Node.js/Typescript back end, and some Python services
• You have a solid understanding of relevant web technologies such as HTML, CSS, HTTP etc
• You are experienced in working with relational databases
• You have been using Docker and potentially also Kubernetes
• Ability to collaborate with others using tools such as Git, Github, and JIRA

Responsibilities

• Architect and deliver step changes to our innovative product within small and focused project teams
• Design, build and maintain an efficient, reusable and reliable codebase
• Ensure the quality and maintainability of our code base e.g. by writing test automation
• Work on all parts of our system landscape
• Fix bugs, resolve incidents, and participate in our well paid on-call scheme (all within reasonable limits and using a self-organised rota)
• Translate technical language/concepts for non-technical individuals written and orally
• Coaching / mentoring and pairing with other engineers
• Formulate technical solutions from product requirements in collaboration with others to create a first class platform

Benefits

• Time off, flexible and remote working so you can work when is best for you, includes 25 days annual leave + 2 volunteering days and birthday half day
• Look after your family and yourself with enhanced parental leave, mindfulness groups, critical illness cover, 7% matched pension, health plan and more
• Career and learning development through the platform and our ‘Learn Anything’ fund
• Recognition & Rewards for doing great work and living our values and behaviours
• Informal or formal flexible working options, e.g. flexible start and finish times, reduced hours, job share, remote working
• We’re a sociable, tight-knit team with monthly socials, and sports clubs. Our socials have included everything from pottery painting and paper mask making, to movie nights and escape rooms
• When you do visit the UK hub getting there is easy: we’re based in the centre of Bristol, just a 10 minute walk from the train station. We also offer railcard loan and cycle scheme to buy a new bike