Software Engineer
Job Summary
Bristol Hybrid Working
Ecosurety exists to rid the world of unnecessary packaging.
We believe in a future where every brand has the data and market insights to make smart sustainable packaging decisions. To make that vision a reality we enable the worlds leading brands to make smart and sustainable packaging decisions through our intelligence platform and deep regulatory expertise.
Were at an exciting stage of growth expanding our capabilities investing in technology and developing new ways to support our customers in a rapidly changing world. That means there has never been a better time to join Ecosurety and play a role in shaping what comes next.
With around 100 colleagues and ambitious plans for the future were building a business where talented people can do meaningful work challenge convention and create real-world impact.
Were building The Hub a greenfield platform that will become the foundation for the next generation of customer-facing products and services at Ecosurety.
Bringing together data insights regulatory expertise and intelligent automation The Hub will help organisations make smarter more sustainable packaging decisions. It will underpin future products services and customer experiences creating a strategic ecosystem rather than a single application.
As a Software Engineer youll join at the beginning of that journey.
This isnt a role maintaining legacy systems or delivering incremental updates to an established product. Its an opportunity to help shape a modern technology platform from the ground up influencing architecture engineering standards tooling and development practices from day one.
Youll work across modern cloud-native architecture platform engineering and AI-enhanced workflows creating scalable services intuitive user experiences and robust technical foundations that support Ecosuretys long-term growth.
If youre excited by ownership solving meaningful problems and building products that genuinely matter wed love to hear from you.
Technology is becoming increasingly central to how Ecosurety supports customers and delivers value.
As customer needs evolve and regulatory complexity continues to increase were investing heavily in our product and technology capabilities. The Hub represents one of the most significant technology initiatives in our history and will play a vital role in shaping the future of the business.
Youll join at a stage where there is genuine opportunity to influence decisions challenge thinking and help define how the platform evolves.
You wont be joining a mature product with all the big decisions already made.
Youll help make them.
For engineers who enjoy ownership collaboration and building things properly from the start opportunities like this dont come around very often.
Design develop and maintain high-quality software applications services and integrations that form part of The Hub platform.
Contribute to architecture technical design and engineering standards that support a scalable secure and maintainable platform.
Work across customer operational and regulatory challenges transforming complexity into simple effective software solutions.
Build APIs backend services and customer-facing functionality that delivers real value to users.
Contribute to testing deployment observability reliability and operational excellence practices across the platform.
Work closely with Product Data Client Services and Commercial colleagues to understand problems shape solutions and deliver outcomes.
Help identify opportunities where AI and intelligent automation can improve customer guidance automate validation processes and unlock valuable new insights.
- Enjoy solving complex technical problems.
- Take ownership of your work and follow through on commitments.
- Think beyond writing code and focus on solving business problems.
- Enjoy learning new technologies and approaches.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Like working collaboratively across different disciplines.
- Care about software quality maintainability and performance.
- Balance pragmatism with good engineering principles.
- Enjoy improving how things are done.
- Want your work to have a genuine environmental impact.
- Built and maintained software in a commercial environment.
- Delivered complex features services or integrations.
- Developed APIs or backend services.
- Built modern web applications or customer-facing products.
- Contributed to technical design or architectural decisions.
- Improved software quality performance reliability or scalability.
- Worked closely with stakeholders to solve business challenges.
- Taken ownership of products services or technical domains.
- Improved engineering practices tooling or ways of working.
- Balanced delivery speed with long-term technical sustainability.
Our emerging technology landscape is expected to include:
Python FastAPI and REST APIs
React and TypeScript
PostgreSQL and data-processing services
Microsoft Azure CI/CD pipelines Infrastructure as Code monitoring and observability
Cloud-native and event-driven services
AI-assisted development workflows validation customer guidance and insight generation
Were more interested in strong engineering fundamentals problem-solving ability and curiosity than a perfect match against every technology listed above.
Youll be joining a collaborative ambitious organisation where people are trusted to make decisions contribute ideas and influence outcomes.
We value ownership continuous improvement and practical problem-solving. We believe the best solutions come from bringing together different perspectives challenging assumptions and focusing on the outcomes that matter most.
As Ecosurety continues to grow youll have the opportunity to shape products influence technical decisions and help build the platform that supports the next stage of our journey.
Most importantly youll be helping create technology that enables businesses to make smarter and more sustainable packaging decisions.
Salary: Up to 55000 per annum dependent on experience
In addition to a competitive salary youll benefit from:
- Up to 10% annual bonus
- 7% employer pension contribution
- 5x salary life insurance
- Critical illness cover
- Employee health cash plan
- Paid sick leave
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Opportunity to buy additional holiday or take unpaid leave
- Two weeks workcation per year
- Three paid volunteering days each year
- 250 home working allowance
- Wellbeing support
- Access to training and professional development
- Flexible working arrangements
- Hybrid working with colleagues expected to spend at least 50% of their time working together in person
- Modern Bristol city centre office
We focus on outcomes rather than hours or location giving our people the flexibility and support they need to do their best work while making a positive impact.
Ecosurety is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds experiences and perspectives.
We believe diversity strengthens our teams improves decision-making and helps us better serve our customers and communities. If youre excited about this opportunity but dont meet every requirement wed still encourage you to apply.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early should we receive a high volume of suitable applications. We therefore encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.
Required Experience:
IC