Software Engineer - Full Stack, Python

Hi, we’re Bloom & Wild. We don’t just send flowers. We help our customers to care wildly. Caring wildly is celebrating the little things we all do for each other every day. Not just the big occasions. It’s being there for the highs. Stepping up for the lows. We care wildly about people and our planet. Which is why we’re so proud to be a certified B Corp – committed to making long-term positive change for our community, and the world around us.

Founded in 2013, our mission back then was to make sending and receiving flowers the joy that it should be, by harnessing technology, brand and letterbox delivery. We announced £75 million Series D funding in 2021 and that same year acquired bloomon in The Netherlands and Bergamotte in France. Together, we’ve fulfilled and delivered over 20 million orders (and counting!), making us the largest direct to consumer flower business in Europe. Now home to a family of 3 beautiful brands, we’re driven by our vision to create the destination for making life a little more thoughtful and beautiful. And we won’t stop at flowers and plants. Starting with the Bloom & Wild brand, we’re expanding our gifting offering to other categories like cakes, candles and cocktails. This is all part of our ambition to build Europe’s #1 direct to consumer gifting destination.

Technology at Bloom & Wild

Here at Bloom & Wild the Product Engineering team is organised into cross functional squads, each responsible for a business and architectural domain. They are supported by Platform and Data Engineering and are part of the wider Technology team. You’ll be part of the Production & Procurement squad, a cross-functional squad working within our Ops-Tech team. The primary focus of the squad is our internal systems that facilitate daily operations within our multiple warehouses (for example the production of bouquets and fulfilment of orders). This is one of the most unique and innovative areas of our business, and as our business continues to experience significant organic and inorganic growth, we have ambitious plans to innovate and scale our operations further. We work with some great technology; our stack consists of a number of Python-based (micro-)services with React frontend, currently running on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You’ll work on multiple services used by the people working in our warehouses.

Most of our team is based in the UK or the Netherlands and works in a flexible model, with choice in how often they travel to the office. Our squads meet all in person at least once per quarter in order to maintain connections, collaborate on larger projects and have fun together. You can read lots more about our technology stack and our culture over on our tech blog - Code & Wild.

What you’ll be doing...

• You’ll play an active role in delivering the roadmap for your squad and be a key part of our Engineering team.
• You’ll be collaborating with other engineers, designers, product managers and stakeholders as you work together to scope out what to build and how.
• You will be owning feature development from ideation through to production release and ongoing maintenance, using an iterative approach to validate ideas and learn.
• Being a part of our supportive engineering culture as you learn more, and grow your career, within Bloom & Wild Engineering.

You’ll love this role if you…

• Have 2-4 years of relevant experience as a Full-Stack Developer with a track record of successfully developing and deploying web applications.
• Proficiency in Python for server-side development.
• Knowledge of React for front-end development.
• Experience with relational databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and writing efficient SQL queries.
• Love to collaborate and are at your best when working cross functionally with other teams.
• 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.

It would be great if you also have...

• Experience working on an e-commerce site or in a fast-growing (preferably consumer-facing) start-up.
• Know about distributed service architectures, including how best to test and release them, and how to ensure system stability when making changes independent of other services.

These are some of the skills and experience we think will enable success in this role, but please don’t worry if you are missing some of these. We’re committed to building a team made up of different strengths, skills and experiences, so if you’re excited about our values, passionate about what you do and would like to join us in doing things more thoughtfully, we’d love to hear from you.

Belonging @ Bloom & Wild

We know that we learn through our differences, and building a diverse team has always been central to creating the best experience for our customers. We value all backgrounds, perspectives, ideas and experiences, and encourage everyone to share their opinions openly within our caring and inclusive team. Our champions community actively advances our culture of inclusion and belonging, which is organised around 8 pillars of diversity. These cross-business networks offer additional opportunities for connection, education, support and celebration, and ensure that inclusivity continues to be embedded in our ways of working.

Our ways of working

We really believe in the power of connection. For us that looks different depending on the team you work in. Some of our teams work together in person every day, whereas others may connect in person every quarter. We also believe in flexibility that supports you, the work you do, and your team. How much you work from home and from our office depends on a balance of those needs, and you’ll agree this with your manager. Whether it’s through a shared project, a learning and development opportunity, or an afterwork social - we trust our teams to make the right decisions (for them and us) about where and how they work each day. We’re big on collaboration, empathy, knowledge sharing and growth, and our values drive our priorities every day:

• Lead change for good: we have the guts to try new things and step up to do what matters most.
• Think deeply, act swiftly: we make sure there’s thoughtful rationale behind our approach and always act swiftly to implement ideas.
• Care wildly: we pour care and creativity into everything we do and pay attention to the things that make a difference.
• Stay open, be curious: we’re open about what we’re doing and why, and we welcome challenges from each other.

Work that works for you

To care wildly for our customers, firstly we care wildly for our teams. We work hard to craft a culture of thoughtfulness and care, where there is a strong sense of inclusion and belonging, enabling all of our people to thrive and be successful each day. Our perks and benefits include:

• Flexible working & work from abroad.
• 25 days holiday + your birthday + flexible bank holidays, & option to buy additional holiday each year.
• 1 Volunteering day each year.
• Enhanced family leave and a workplace nursery scheme.
• A flexible training framework for every stage of your career.
• Irresistible discounts on our products, blooms & subscriptions!
• Share in our success with a choice to take equity options from day 1.

For more information on our perks & benefits, please see www.bloomandwild.com/careers.

Getting hired

We’ll do everything we can to make sure your interview experience with us is a good one. It’s a 2-way process, and we’re keen to answer all of the questions you may have, so that you can be sure (and excited!) that we’ll be the right place for you. Apply below (it takes 2 minutes!). If you are successful you can expect:

• A chat with Leroy, our Talent Consultant or tech - to discuss our role and learn a bit more about your skills and background and how we might match your career & development goals.
• An interview with Gastón, the P+P Engineering Manager, to get into more of the details.
• A chance to show us your technical skills and get to know two of the engineers from the squad.
• Prove your product mindset in a chat with our Product Managers.
• Then a call with either our VP of Engineering or our Chief Product & Technology Officer.

We believe in leading change for good, so if there’s anything that we can do to help throughout your application process, or if you have any feedback, please share this with us anonymously here so we can use this to improve your experience.