Senior Software Engineer, Bloom & Wild

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React
AWS
GCP
Python
iOS
Android
Ruby
Rspec
Rails
Ruby on Rails
Senior level
London

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Bloom & Wild

Online florist

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Bloom & Wild

Online florist

201-500 employees

B2CLifestyleFlowersConsumer GoodseCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

+ Equity Options

React
AWS
GCP
Python
iOS
Android
Ruby
Rspec
Rails
Ruby on Rails
Senior level
London

More information about location

201-500 employees

B2CLifestyleFlowersConsumer GoodseCommerce

Company mission

Bloom & Wild's mission is to put joy and ease back into flower delivery by making sending and receiving flowers as easy as it should be.

Role

Who you are

  • Have detailed knowledge of Ruby on Rails and/or Python in a production environment and experience of test-driven development. You will also have experience of good CI/CD and observability practices
  • Have experience of distributed service architectures, including how best to test and release them, and how to ensure system stability when making changes independent of other services
  • Have experience working with RESTful APIs and ideally you will have built new ones, used version control tools such as GitHub, CI/CD tools, and testing tools like RSpec or similar
  • Be able to get going quickly, understand complex systems and also be able to communicate with non-technical team members
  • Be experienced in breaking down complex requirements into thin slices for development and estimating the size of work in complexity
  • Care about the Product you’re building. You’re thinking about user experience and want to bring value to customers and stakeholders as soon as possible

Desirable

  • Have experience mentoring more junior team members
  • Have experience with front end technologies such as React or Angular

What the job involves

  • Our Technology team of over 60 people sits right at the heart of our business. We build and maintain the solutions that power e-commerce, production and fulfilment, enabling our brands to delight our customers every day
  • There are six, cross-functional, Product Engineering squads in our Engineering team, who each own their own business and architectural domain and are supported by our Platform, Architecture, Data and IT teams
  • You’ll be joining the Range & Stock squad which builds one of the key functionalities for our stakeholders. The focus for the next year is to build several microservices in Ruby or Python backed by AWS. There are plenty of opportunities to bring initiatives and follow best practices of building distributed systems
  • Playing an active role in delivering the roadmap for your squad as a key part of our Engineering team
  • Collaborating with other engineers, product managers and stakeholders as you work together to scope out what to build, and how
  • Owning iterative feature development from ideation through to production release and ongoing maintenance, working in whichever codebases you need to
  • Being a part of our supportive engineering culture as you learn more, and grow your career, within Bloom & Wild Engineering
  • You’ll work with some great technology. Our domain driven microservices written in Ruby and Python and backed by PostgreSQL, Fargate/ECS on AWS. Microservices communicate with our main backend Ruby platform
  • You will bring energy and positivity to the role, looking for opportunities to mentor teammates and improve engineering standards

Application process

  • Chat with Billy, our Senior Talent Manager for tech - to discuss our role and learn a bit more about your skills and background and how we might match your career & development goals
  • Interview with Tania, one of our Engineering Managers, to get to know you and your previous experience better. We’ll also discuss the role and the team in more detail
  • A choice between a task home task or a paired technical test and interview with some of the engineers that you’d work with day to day
  • A final chat with our product managers to understand your product vision and understand your alignment with our values

Salary benchmarks

Otta's take

Theo Margolius headshot

Theo Margolius

COO of Otta

Bloom & Wild is an online flower delivery platform supplying a modern approach for sending flowers to loved ones. Its product approach is to sell flowers as bouquets, with smaller bouquets being able to fit through a typical UK mail slot in a small box, making it extremely easy to deliver.

The company operates across a number of countries, including Germany, France, Austria, and the Netherlands. It has utilised its two acquired businesses - Netherlands-based Bloomon, and French competitor Bergamotte - to expand the range of products it offers and reach new customers. It also launched a subscription service for consumers purchasing flowers for their own homes.

Expanding beyond its digital roots, Bloom & Wild has experimented with physical retail concepts - most notably its launch in Sainsbury’s stores. On top of international expansion, significant funding, and a unique concept, the company has become a recognised brand and surely positioned itself for a bright future.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

64% female employees

-6% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Employee endorsements

Supportive management

"Regular catch-ups with your line manager allow any problems to be openly discussed. Pathways for career progression are clearly laid out with..."

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jul 2021

$38.7m

SERIES D

Jan 2021

$96.7m

SERIES D

Total funding: $162.8m

Company benefits

  • đŸŒ» Work that works for you
  • Flexible working (core hours from 10-4pm)
  • Work Abroad for up to 30 days each year
  • Summer hours: every Friday afternoon off during July and August (trialling in 2023)
  • Share in our success with a choice to take equity options from day 1
  • Enhanced family leave policy and a workplace nursery scheme
  • 1 day per year to volunteer on a project that’s close to your heart
  • 🌮 Time off
  • 25 days’ holiday + your birthday and bank holidays each year
  • Option to buy an extra 5 days’ holiday each year
  • Flexible bank holidays - trade a bank holiday for another day that fits your beliefs, values and celebration calendar
  • đŸŒ± Health & Wellbeing
  • Health cash plan through Simplyhealth
  • Mental health support through Open Up, including access to online therapy sessions
  • Allies and champions groups
  • Mental Health First Aiders and awareness training for our managers
  • In person and virtual yoga every week
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Our office kitchen is stocked with healthy drinks and snacks to keep you going
  • Financial wellbeing support through Bippit
  • Workplace pension contributions
  • 🌳 Growth & Development
  • A flexible training framework for every stage of your career development through our Bloom & Learn programme
  • Access to the Goodhabitz learning platform
  • Mentee and mentor opportunities with our external partners, such as The Women's Association and Future Founders
  • Internal & external Speaker Sessions on a variety of different inspirational topics
  • 💐 Moments that matter
  • Social & wellbeing monthly calendar
  • We love to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries and other important milestones!
  • Summer and End of Year events,, team lunches and post-peak celebrations
  • Irresistible discounts on our products, blooms & subscriptions!

Company values

  • Lead Change for Good - We are leaders of our industry in making change for good. Change that benefits our customers, our community and the planet. We have the guts to try new things even when no one else has done them before. As a team, we're prepared to take on more than our fair share of responsibility to do the things which matter most.
  • Think Deeply, Act Swiftly - We think deeply about opportunities and problems to be solved together. Our insights informed approach is always backed up with thoughtful rationale. We act swiftly in implementing new ideas that we think will have impact for our customers and our business.
  • Care Wildly - We build brilliant experiences for our customers and our team and create deep connections with each other. We pour care and creativity into everything we do and pay attention to the little things that make a difference. We have serious fun doing what we love!
  • Stay Open, Be Curious - We learn through our differences and invite diverse perspectives. We're open about what we're doing and why. Most of all, we're curious and welcome challenges from each other and from our customers.

Company HQ

Vauxhall, London, UK

Founders

Previously a consulting manager at Bain & Company. Has an MBA from Harvard.

Ben Stanway

(Board Director)

Founder and Partner at Habrok, a global equity hedge fund. Co-Founder & co-CEO at Moneybox.


People progressing

Joined in 2013 as a Marketing Manager. Has served as Head of Customer Research & Insight since 2020.

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