Associate Software Engineer

Menlo Ventures; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cybersecurity company based in Bristol is seeking an Associate Software Engineer. You'll join a collaborative team to develop a robust platform, using a range of technologies such as Ruby on Rails and React. Ideal candidates will have 1-2 years’ experience building web applications and a willingness to learn. Hybrid working options are available, with a salary between £40,000 and £45,000. Join us to innovate in the cyber resilience sector.

Benefits

25 days annual leave + 2 volunteering days

Enhanced parental leave

Private healthcare

Professional development fund

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Commercial experience in building customer-facing web applications or SaaS platforms.
• Consideration of accessibility in all aspects of work.
• Experience with AI tools to accelerate development.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain an efficient, reusable, reliable codebase.
• Translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Deliver automated tests to ensure feature confidence.
• Fix bugs and minimize customer impact.
• Share feedback via code review process.

Skills

Web application development

Accessibility

AI tools usage

Git proficiency

Agile teamwork

Code quality testing

Education

1–2 years of commercial experience

Tools

Ruby

Python

React

TypeScript

Node.js

Job description

Location

Bristol, UK

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

Deadline to Apply

March 1, 2026 at 7:00 PM EST

***Closing Date for Applications: Monday 2nd March 2026***

A platform you can believe in: Immersive One is the leading cyber resilience solution across the globe.

Build and scale a best in class platform alongside a team of the brightest minds in cybersecurity! At Immersive, we’re uniquely positioned to future-proof organizations against any cyber challenge. If that excites you, read on!

Immersive helps prove and improve your cyber resilience, by simulating real-world threats, testing your skills, and measuring performance. We put your readiness to the ultimate test. From sharpening technical capabilities to making high-pressure decisions, our platform allows you to assess every angle, pinpoint areas for growth, and prove your ability to tackle evolving threats with unwavering confidence.

https://www.immersivelabs.com/why-immersive-labs

Immersive was founded in 2017, from a cargo container in Bristol, UK we’ve grown to over 300 employees globally, announced funding of more than £150 million and been voted a Best place to work on multiple occasions!

https://www.immersivelabs.com/company/our-story

Associate Software Engineer - Bristol, UK (Hybrid working) - £40,000 - £45,000

Immersive is hiring! Could you be our next Software Engineer?
Join our established UK Engineering team as an Associate Software Engineer. We are looking for someone curious, eager to solve problems, and excited to build alongside a collaborative team.

Reporting to one of our Engineering Managers and based in our Bristol office, you will be a key part of building our Immersive One platform. You’ll join a team where we value determination, ingenuity, and pragmatic, reusable technical solutions.

You’ll work within a multi-disciplinary agile team, focusing on quarterly outcomes that drive real impact. We rotate our teams to keep things fresh and encourage cross-pollination of skills, and you’ll also have the chance to explore innovative ideas during our twice-yearly Hack Weeks.

You will be instrumental in shaping the future of our product, working across our entire system landscape. Our tech stack includes:

Backend: Ruby on Rails, Node.js and Python

Frontend: React and TypeScript

Testing: Playwright and TypeScript

This role is ideal for someone early in their commercial software development journey who has the motivation to become a well-rounded full-stack engineer. We appreciate that early in your career, you may not have a fully formed view of your preferred direction; here, you will gain hands‑on experience across the entire stack.

Main responsibilities

• Work alongside the team to design, build, and maintain an efficient, reusable, and reliable codebase across the stack.
• Collaborate with Product Managers and other disciplines to help translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Partner with our Quality Experts to deliver automated tests, ensuring we have confidence in every feature we release.
• Contribute to the team's success by fixing bugs, resolving incidents, and minimizing customer impact.
• Help ensure code quality by sharing feedback with your peers via our code review process.

Success in this role will depend most on your approach, underlying skills, and potential for growth. You don’t have to match all the listed requirements below exactly to be considered, so we encourage you to apply even if some of them would be new to you.

Qualifications

• 1–2 years of commercial experience building customer facing web applications or working on SaaS platforms.
• You consider accessibility in all aspects of your work.
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate development and problem‑solving.
• You are willing to work with different programming languages across our tech stack (Ruby, Python, React, TypeScript, or Node.js) as needed.
• Proficiency with Git and familiarity with GitHub actions.
• Experience working in agile cross functional teams and working independently and pro‑actively.
• Takes pride in code quality by testing features thoroughly and offering helpful, supportive feedback during peer code reviews.

This is a hybrid role based in Bristol. While we fully support flexible working, we believe that face‑to‑face collaboration is vital for your development at this stage of your career. We are hiring more than one engineer, so you will have a cohort of colleagues at a similar level to collaborate with in person!

How we support you

We want to give you a place where you'll learn from us and we'll learn from you. We have a strong track record of nurturing talent through Summer internships and apprenticeships. To set you up for success, we provide:

• Mentorship & Coaching: Regular support from experienced developers.
• Collaboration: Opportunities to pair with senior engineers to grow your knowledge.
• Continuous Learning: A structured approach to professional development, backed by a dedicated professional learning fund.

Our values

• Driven: We push the boundaries of innovation, acting swiftly to achieve ambitious outcomes. Our drive embodies a culture of ambition, where challenges are stepping stones to excellence.
• Inclusive: Our strength lies in diversity, fostering a culture where every individual contributes to our collective strength. We champion open dialogue and empathy, ensuring a collaborative, inclusive workplace.
• Customer Centric: We seek to develop deep relationships with our customers to help them achieve their business outcomes. We exceed our customers and partners' expectations by crafting products, services and experiences that surprise, delight and ensure they feel valued and supported every day.
• One Team: We are a talented global team working together to achieve our vision. Central to our ethos, resilience means adapting and thriving in adversity. It guides our innovation, ensuring we and our clients are prepared for the future.

We encourage people of all different backgrounds and identities to apply. We are committed to maintaining an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you and do your very best work.

Benefits

As well as an inclusive, supportive place for you to be you. We offer an extensive range of benefits so you can do your very best work:

• Time off, flexible and remote working so you can work when is best for you, includes 25 days annual leave + 2 volunteering days and your birthday off.
• The longer you are with Immersive, the more holiday days you get, up to a maximum of 30 days after five years of service.
• Look after your family and yourself with enhanced parental leave, mindfulness groups, critical illness cover, 7% matched pension, private healthcare plan and more.
• Career and learning development through the platform, a dedicated professional development fund and our ‘Learn Anything’ fund - which enables you to learn anything that’s not work!
• 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.
• We have a vibrant team culture with team events throughout the year including our Hack Week. Our socials have included everything from pottery painting and paper mask making, to dungeons and dragons!
• 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.

Find out more at https://www.immersivelabs.com/company/careers

Cyber threats wait for no one and neither should you. Apply now!

Application process

• Our talent acquisition partner reviews all applications received which can take up to two weeks to complete.
• If successful, you will receive an invite from the Talent Acquisition Partner to a screening interview which takes around 30-40 minutes to discuss the role, culture at Immersive Labs and your expertise in more detail.
• If you progress from this step, you will meet two of our Engineering People Managers in a Cultural interview. This will involve competency based open questions that give you a chance to speak further about specific examples in your career. This will enable both you and the team to confirm suitability for the role. This will last 45 minutes.
• For the final stage, we’d love to see how you tackle technical challenges! Your Talent Partner will send over a full brief so you have plenty of time to prepare. Please don’t worry about writing 'perfect' code—we’re much more interested in your unique problem‑solving style and how you think through a task. We’ll set aside about 90 minutes so we can chat through it at a comfortable pace.
• If all goes well, we would love for you to meet some of your future colleagues prior to us making an offer, we’d host you for an hour at our office in Bristol.

If at any point you are unsuccessful we will advise you. From application we do this via email and due to volumes we cannot respond individually to every applicant. From the first interview onward, we endeavour to call you with feedback.