Software Engineer in Bristol

Help build the platform that powers Ecosurety’s future.

About Ecosurety

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 world’s leading brands to make smart and sustainable packaging decisions through our intelligence platform and deep regulatory expertise. We’re 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, we’re building a business where talented people can do meaningful work, challenge convention and create real-world impact.

The Opportunity

We’re 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, you’ll join at the beginning of that journey. This isn’t a role maintaining legacy systems or delivering incremental updates to an established product. It’s an opportunity to help shape a modern technology platform from the ground up, influencing architecture, engineering standards, tooling and development practices from day one.

You’ll work across modern cloud-native architecture, platform engineering and AI-enhanced workflows, creating scalable services, intuitive user experiences and robust technical foundations that support Ecosurety’s long-term growth. If you’re excited by ownership, solving meaningful problems and building products that genuinely matter, we’d love to hear from you.

Why Join Now?

Technology is becoming increasingly central to how Ecosurety supports customers and delivers value. As customer needs evolve and regulatory complexity continues to increase, we’re 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.

You’ll join at a stage where there is genuine opportunity to influence decisions, challenge thinking and help define how the platform evolves. You won’t be joining a mature product with all the big decisions already made. You’ll help make them. For engineers who enjoy ownership, collaboration and building things properly from the start, opportunities like this don’t come around very often.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build scalable software: Design, develop and maintain high-quality software applications, services and integrations that form part of The Hub platform.
• Shape technical direction: Contribute to architecture, technical design and engineering standards that support a scalable, secure and maintainable platform.
• Solve complex problems: Work across customer, operational and regulatory challenges, transforming complexity into simple, effective software solutions.
• Develop modern products: Build APIs, backend services and customer-facing functionality that delivers real value to users.
• Improve platform capabilities: Contribute to testing, deployment, observability, reliability and operational excellence practices across the platform.
• Collaborate across Ecosurety: Work closely with Product, Data, Client Services and Commercial colleagues to understand problems, shape solutions and deliver outcomes.
• Explore AI and automation: Help identify opportunities where AI and intelligent automation can improve customer guidance, automate validation processes and unlock valuable new insights.

You’ll Probably Be Successful If You...

• 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.

We’d Love to See Evidence of How You’ve...

• 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.

Technology Experience

Our emerging technology landscape is expected to include:

• Backend: Python, FastAPI and REST APIs
• Frontend: Next.js, React and TypeScript
• Data: PostgreSQL and data-processing services
• Cloud and platform: Microsoft Azure, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring and observability
• Architecture: Cloud-native and event-driven services
• AI and automation: AI-assisted development workflows, validation, customer guidance and insight generation

We’re more interested in strong engineering fundamentals, problem-solving ability and curiosity than a perfect match against every technology listed above.

Why You’ll Succeed Here

You’ll 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, you’ll have the opportunity to shape products, influence technical decisions and help build the platform that supports the next stage of our journey. Most importantly, you’ll be helping create technology that enables businesses to make smarter and more sustainable packaging decisions.

Package & Benefits

Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum, dependent on experience. In addition to a competitive salary, you’ll 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.

Equal Opportunities

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 you’re excited about this opportunity but don’t meet every requirement, we’d 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.