Junior Software Engineer

We help our customers to care wildly—celebrating the little things we all do for each other every day, not just the big occasions. It’s being there for the highs and stepping up for the lows. We care wildly about people and our planet, and we’re 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 is to make sending and receiving flowers the joy that it should be, by harnessing technology, brand, and letterbox delivery. Now home to a family of three beautiful brands, we’re driven by our vision to create the destination for making life a little more thoughtful and beautiful. Starting with the Bloom & Wild brand, we're expanding our gifting offering to other categories like cakes, candles, and cocktails as part of our ambition to build Europe's #1 direct to consumer gifting destination.

Technology at Bloom & Wild

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.

The Product Engineering team consists of five cross-functional squads who each own their own business and architectural domain, and are supported by our Platform, Domain Engineering, Data, and IT teams.

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 web app and our native iOS and Android mobile apps. We’re also looking at developing new domain driven services & microservices where applicable.

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 in person at least once per quarter in order to maintain connections, collaborate on larger projects, and have fun together. We welcome applications from candidates based remotely within roughly two hours of the UK time zone, covering many European countries. This helps us stay aligned as a team while supporting flexible, remote-friendly ways of working.

What you’ll be doing

• You’ll play an active role in delivering the roadmap for the Discovery & Gift Building 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 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… (What excites us)

• Have a growth mindset: You don't know everything yet, and that's okay. You are optimistic, resilient, and excited to learn more and to grow your career.
• Want to work as part of a team: You value collaboration and truly believe in the value of diverse and inclusive teams.
• Are Outcome Driven: You’re enthusiastic, passionate and keen to deliver impactful results.
• Have a solid grasp of web fundamentals: You understand semantic HTML and the importance of accessibility. You are comfortable with CSS concepts like the Box Model and Flexbox and can translate a design into code.
• Know enough JavaScript to be dangerous: You have a good handle on modern JavaScript (ES6+) and the DOM. If you have experience with a framework like Angular, React, or Vue, that’s a bonus, but strong core skills are what we value most.
• Are curious about the Back End: While you might lean towards the Front End, you are interested in learning how our platform works (Ruby on Rails and Python) and how to build the APIs that power our UI.
• Have a quality mindset and a passion for writing clean, secure code while also keeping an eye for opportunities for improvements.

It would be great if you also have...

• Exposure to Angular or Ruby on Rails through personal projects, bootcamps, or previous internships.
• An understanding of the difference between synchronous and asynchronous code (Promises/Observables).
• Experience using the command line/terminal to run your tools.
• Experience using an AI coding assistant.

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.

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.

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