Senior Software Engineer, Bloom & Wild
Share in our success with a choice to take equity options from day 1
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Online gifting
Open for applications
Online gifting
201-500 employees
Open for applications
Share in our success with a choice to take equity options from day 1
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build Europe's #1 direct to consumer gifting destination.
Role
Who you are
- Have a minimum of 5 years of professional experience, demonstrated by a history of developing and deploying successful web applications
- Are flexible and excited about using different languages and frameworks to complete a task
- Can demonstrate proficiency in either front-end development using Angular 17+ or server-side development, ideally using Ruby on Rails. Extra points if you can demonstrate proficiency in both!
- Have experience with database systems (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and writing efficient SQL queries
- Understand the importance of practices such as version control, testing and CI/CD, and have used industry recognised tools to follow them
- Enjoy working in a collaborative and cross functional team environment; we encourage engineers to have a product mindset and to work with stakeholders and our product team to identify and then find the best solution to problems
- Have a positive and optimistic attitude - you overcome setbacks and obstacles, and inspire and motivate those around you too
- Take a collaborative, data-driven and experimental approach to solving complex problems, and are able to demonstrate the ability to foster this mindset in your colleagues
- Are keen to learn and stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and value sharing your knowledge with your peers
Desirable
- Experience working on an e-commerce site or in a fast-growing (preferably consumer-facing) start-up or scale-up
- Have worked with RESTful APIs and ideally built new ones
- Used Angular CLI and maintained Angular codebases
- Experience working in an A/B testing driven way of working
What the job involves
- There are seven, 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. Youâll be joining our Checkout & Payments squad, a close-knit, cross functional, team who help to ensure that our customers have a great purchase experience across our gifting and subscription ranges
- Our platform uses technologies including Ruby and Rails and Python/ React, backed by PostgreSQL, Fargate/ECS on AWS, and Cloud Run on GCP. It exposes APIs that are used by our multi-brand Angular webapp and our native iOS and Android mobile apps
- Weâre also looking at developing new domain driven services & microservices where applicable
- Youâll play an active role in delivering the roadmap for your squad and be a key part of our Engineering team
- Collaborating with other engineers, designers, 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
Application process
- Apply below (it takes 2 minutes!)
- 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 Armando, one of our Engineering Managers, in order to get into more of the detail
- A paired technical test and interview with some of the engineers that youâd work with day to day
- Interview with our product team
- Final chat with Kev, our Engineering Director and Joe our CPTO
Salary benchmarks
Our take
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 Sainsburyâs 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.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few 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
$36.7m
SERIES D
Jan 2021
$91.6m
SERIES D
Total funding: $154.3m
Company benefits
- đ» Work that works for you
- Flexible working (core hours from 10-4pm)
- Work Abroad for up to 30 days each year
- Summer hours: Friday afternoons off during July and August (trialling in 2024)
- 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 thatâs close to your heart
- đŽ Time off
- 25 daysâ holiday + your birthday and bank holidays each year
- Option to buy an extra 5 daysâ holiday each year
- Flexible bank holidays - trade a bank holiday for another day that fits your beliefs, values and celebration calendar
- đ± 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 yoga & wellbeing wagon!
- 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
- đł Growth & Development
- A flexible training framework for every stage of your career development through our Bloom & Learn programme
- 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
- đ 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
Articles
Leadership
Aron Gelbard
(CEO)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
Emily joined us as a Senior Growth Analyst in 2021, and after a number of promotions, became our our Director of Business Intelligence & Analytics in 2024 đ
From medicine, to accounting, to Bloom & Wild! Marie joined our Finance team in 2021, and now leads Financial Reporting for the Group đ
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