Ruby Engineer

Bloom & Wild is re-inventing the $60B global flower industry. Over a billion flower exchanges take place every year and industry satisfaction levels are low. Driven by our vision of creating the destination for making life a little more thoughtful and beautiful, we do things differently. From inventing letterbox flowers to founding The Thoughtful Marketing Movement. We are Europe’s largest direct to consumer flower company.

In January 2021 we announced our £75 million Series D funding round, led by General Catalyst, alongside other top tier investors including Index Ventures. We are home to a family of 3 strong brands, Bloom & Wild, bloomon and Bergamotte, having acquired bloomon in April 2021 and Bergamotte in July 2021. Together, we are active in 8 countries.

We were named one of the 5 fastest growing tech companies in Europe and are alumni of Tech Nation’s Future Fifty. We were also one of the Sunday Times Top 100 Small Companies to Work For 2020. We really care about creating a diverse and inclusive team and we welcome people from all backgrounds, with different perspectives, ideas and experiences to work with us. In our team, everyone has the freedom to give their opinion, grow in their career and be part of a genuinely caring and inclusive team.

Our Technology team sits at the heart of our business, building and maintaining the solutions that power e-commerce, production, and fulfillment. 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. We’re also looking at developing new domain-driven services & microservices where applicable.

Our Product Engineering team is organised into cross functional squads, each responsible for a business and architectural domain, supported by Platform and Data Engineering. You’ll join the Range squad, a cross-functional team within our Ops-Tech group. We focus on the internal systems that power range representation, product allocation, and stock management — a core domain of our business that directly influences what our customers see and receive. Our work connects closely with many other squads across Bloom & Wild, as we support the smooth flow of products from planning through to delivery.

Most of our team is based in the UK 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.

What you’ll be doing…

• As a mid-level engineer in our Range squad, you’ll help build and maintain the internal tools that power our warehouse operations — from bouquet assembly to order fulfilment across multiple countries.
• Your day-to-day will include:

• Working closely with our product manager, engineers, and stakeholders to understand real-world needs and translate them into working software.
• Building and improving our internal tools using Ruby on Rails and related technologies.
• Making iterative improvements to our monolith while contributing to the development of new features to support our rapidly expanding curated range of products.
• Writing clear, tested, secure, maintainable code and participating in code reviews to ensure high-quality solutions.
• Exploring new ideas and opportunities to improve our monolith and workflows.
• Helping to shape our technical decisions by sharing your ideas and contributing to discussions about architecture, tooling, and best practices.
• Contributing to technical discussions and helping ensure our solutions align with our technical strategy and business goals.
• Collaborating with your squad to deliver work in small, valuable increments — using agile practices and modern tooling.
• Monitoring, debugging and improving the performance of our systems with observability tools.

You’ll love this role if…

• You are a Ruby developer (2+ years of experience) with good knowledge of Ruby on Rails in a production environment and are keen to keep growing your expertise.
• You have experience working with RESTful APIs, version control tools such as GitHub, and testing tools like RSpec.
• You’re curious about how things work — whether it’s diving into a new tool, exploring performance improvements, or figuring out how real-world problems translate into code.
• You want to work in a kind, inclusive, and supportive environment where people care about their work and each other.

It would be great if...

• You have experience working in a fast-growing (preferably consumer-facing) startup / scaleup.
• You 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.

Why Bloom & Wild?

To care wildly for our customers, first 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.

Work that works for you:

• Flexible working: our core hours are 10-4, but outside of these hours you can start or finish your day when works best for you.
• Work Abroad for up to 30 days each year.
• 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.

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 or virtual yoga every week.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Electric car scheme.
• Our office kitchen is stocked with 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.
• Summer and End of Year events, team lunches and post-peak celebrations.
• Irresistible discounts on our products, blooms & subscriptions!

Sponsorship:

We’re proud to hold an A-rated sponsor license, so we can assign certificates of sponsorship. This means we can support applications from anywhere as long as the job is deemed suitable under the points based system.

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. If your application is successful you can expect:

• The majority of our A chat with Leroy, our Talent Consultant 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.
• An interview with Tonci, our Engineering Manager to get into more of the detail.
• A chance to show us how you work through a technical challenge, which can be a live paired coding/whiteboard session.
• A final chat with our CPTO or VP of Engineering.

We believe in leading change for good, so do let us know if there’s anything we can do to support your application process. Also, if you have any feedback, please help us to improve our candidate experience by sharing anonymously.