Senior Software Engineer, Bloom & Wild

• 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

• 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

• 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