Junior Data Engineer

bloomon is turning the flower industry on its head – for the better. How? By disrupting the traditional supply chain! We skip the auction and wholesale, to shorten the journey for our flowers. And we harness technology, brand and innovation to deliver gifts and subscriptions that delight our customers across Europe.

We launched in Amsterdam in 2014, and in 2021 joined forces with Bloom & Wild, the UK's fastest growing ecommerce company (according to the Financial Times). Our group is backed by top tier investors and is now home to a family of 3 strong brands, Bloom & Wild, bloomon and Bergamotte. Together, we’ve delivered over 20 million orders (and counting!), making us the largest direct to consumer flower business in Europe.

Our vision is 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.

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.

🛠️ Data Engineering @ Bloom & Wild

Data is at the heart of what we do at Bloom & Wild. The Data Engineering team builds and maintains our data platform that makes this possible - ensuring data is reliable, accessible, and ready for use across the company. Our work powers machine learning models, analytics and reporting. We collaborate closely with business intelligence, data science, product engineers, product managers, and CRM roles.

Our work spans the entire data lifecycle - from developing and optimizing data ingestion processes to transforming and exporting data for analysis. We handle scheduling and orchestration of data workflows, ensuring they run reliably and on time. We also manage and provision the infrastructure to support our data platform. In addition to data platform development, we partner with other teams to help optimise data queries aiming to improve performance, manage costs, and assist with complex data transformations.

Our team is based in the UK and works in a flexible model, with choice in how often we travel to the office. Our team meets all in person at least once per quarter in order to maintain connections, collaborate on larger projects and have fun together.

🔊 Please note: This role does not currently offer visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. 🔊

💻 What you’ll be doing

• As a junior data engineer, you'll have the opportunity to learn and contribute to building and maintaining our data platform. You'll work alongside experienced team members to develop your skills while contributing to our platform’s growth.
• In your day-to-day, you will be involved in building and maintaining data pipelines using AWS Database Migration Service.
• Learn to develop custom pipelines in Python using the Meltano framework.
• Participate in developing data transformations using dbt.
• Learn to manage resources across Snowflake and AWS environments using Terraform.
• Assist in implementing data validation checks, writing tests and updating documentation.
• Help monitor, debug and improve the performance of our data platform with Datadog.
• Collaborate with your squad to deliver work in small, valuable increments using agile practices.

✅ You’ll love this role if you are…

• Looking for a role where you can learn about engineering practices and modern data infrastructure.
• Curious about programming and eager to develop your technical skills.
• Familiar with SQL or have an interest in working with databases.
• Excited about problem-solving and love to take a logical and collaborative approach to finding solutions.
• Keen to work in a kind, inclusive, and supportive environment where people care about their work and each other.

It would be great if you also have...

• Experience using Python, especially for working with data and automation tasks.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g. AWS), cloud-based data warehouses like Snowflake and version control tools like git.
• Experience working on an e-commerce site or in a fast-growing (preferably consumer-facing) company.

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 do things a little bit differently. From inventing letterbox flowers to founding The Thoughtful Marketing Movement. 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

We really believe in the power of face-to-face connections - be that through a shared project, a learning and development opportunity, or an after work social - and trust our teams to make the right decisions (for them and us) about where and how they work each day. Our working patterns are flexible and vary across the business, depending on the type of work, need for collaboration, and personal and wellbeing circumstances.

🌟 (Some of) The good stuff

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.

🌻 Work that works 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
• 1 day per year to volunteer on a project that’s close to your heart
• We’ll support your commute to our office and site locations. Depending on your journey to work, this may include a Swapfiets, an NS business card or expense reimbursement

🌴 Time off

• 24 vacation days and an option to buy an extra 5 each year
• Happiness days (1 extra day each quarter for your personal ‘me time’)
• 1 celebration day per year, to celebrate a holiday that’s important to you
• Flexible bank holidays - trade a bank holiday for another day that fits your beliefs, values and celebration calendar

🌱 Health and wellbeing

• 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 and virtual yoga every week
• Our office kitchen is stocked with healthy drinks and snacks to keep you going
• Workplace pension contributions

🌳 Growth & Development

• A flexible training framework for every stage of your career development through our Bloom & Learn programme
• Internal & external Speaker Sessions on a variety of different inspirational topics.

💐 Moments that matter

• We love having lunch together! We offer daily fresh and healthy lunch options at our locations in Amsterdam and Amstelveen
• A BBQ-worthy rooftop terrace (Amsterdam HQ)
• 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!

🔊 Please note: This role does not currently offer visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application. 🔊