Front-end Developer

Collaborative people that create ingenious solutions

Get on board with the fastest-growing cybersecurity company in the UK

Immersive Labs is the leader in people-centric cyber resilience. We help organizations continuously assess build and prove their cyber workforce resilience for teams across the entire organization from front-line cybersecurity and development teams to Board-level executives. We provide realistic simulations and hands-on cybersecurity labs to evaluate individual and team capabilities and decision-making against the latest threats.

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

Where we are now

Immersive Labs 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 for the last 3 years running! We are trusted by the world’s largest organizations including KPMG Sophos and the NHS to measure map to risk and optimize the human cyber abilities of their entire workforce.

https://careers.immersivelabs.com/our-story/

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.

Front-end Engineer

We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and curious Front-end developer to join us at Immersive Labs as a Front-end Engineer working in our Engineering team. You will participate in building our learning platform’s user interface. You can see part of it in our free community offering at https://www.immersivelabs.com/cybermillion/ .

Whilst this is primarily a Front-End role we appreciate that at this point in your career you may not have a fully formed view of what direction you want to take your career so you will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with the Back-End and other areas of our technical stack by working within one of our dynamic hybrid product teams.

This will ensure you become a well rounded developer and could pursue other specialities if you find you enjoy them - we would fully support you in this!

This is an exciting opportunity to be responsible for developing a truly ground breaking product.

We are not just seeking a skillset though - we are looking for someone who will also become an important and vital part of our team so we seek a driven curious and collaborative person to become our next colleague

If you want to have a large impact and contribute more than just your time this could be the role for you - at Immersive Labs we value determination ingenuity collaboration and an understanding that unique products require unique technical solutions.

You'll get to work in a friendly multi-disciplinary agile team and also work on innovative ideas during our quarterly One Team days where collaboration between different teams is encouraged to find unique solutions.

Your main responsibilities:

You'll get to immerse yourself in engineering projects. We want to give you a place where you'll learn from us and we'll learn from you through getting involved in the following:

• Work alongside others in the team to help deliver on Product and Engineering requirements being an active participant in our Sprint ceremonies

• Collaborate with Back-End Infrastructure QA and Product Managers within a multi-discipline agile team working together to ensure we have full confidence in the features we are releasing

• Strive for continuous improvement in how we work and deliver value to our customers

• Take a structured approach to your continued learning and professional development

• Learn and then follow our Agile Ways of Working to deliver work in a coordinated and considerate manner

• Help ensure our code quality by feeding back on others work via our code review process

Success in this role will depend most on your approach underlying skills and potential for growth even if some of the above would be new to you.

• This role would best suit someone who is several years into their career and have worked on a product or SaaS platform.

• You will be experienced in Javascript frameworks preferably React along with integrating a complex frontend codebase into a backend API (ours is built in Ruby / Rails)

• Demonstrable and up-to-date knowledge of best practices and patterns when working in a large scalable frontend codebase and familiarity with CI setups

• We work in very small teams and need “T-shaped” people i.e. people who are willing to unblock themselves by doing simple changes in the backend if needed.

• Understanding of Git semantic HTML and CSS/SASS using styled-components

• You've begun to develop the skills to critically review technical solutions and identify potential performance / design system / security / scalability issues

• Have excellent communication skills excited and driven to solve challenging problems in a high performing agile culture and an interest in working in a product environment and taking a long term view to development of a platform

• Have an aptitude for problem solving and a strong desire to work collaboratively as part of a team to deliver features on our product.

• Be based in Bristol or within a commutable distance to be able to work from our office 2 days per week.

Immersive Labs’ growth has been fuelled by our values that underpin everything we do here's how they relate to this role:

• Driven - We are innovators and market-creators constantly moving forward to achieve results in support of our mission.

  • Inclusive - We are passionate about creating an environment of inclusion and respect for our employees customers and partners everyone has opportunities to thrive.

  • Customer Obsessed - We seek to develop deep relationships with our customers to help them achieve their business outcomes.

  • One Team - We are a talented global team working together to achieve our vision.

If you would like to read more about what you can expect from our recruitment process you can visit our dedicated interview process page.

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 hybrid 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

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

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