Ruby Engineer
London
Tech – Bloom & Wild /
Full-time /
Hybrid
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.
Tech Team @ Bloom & Wild
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.
You can read lots more about our technology stack and our culture over on our tech blog - Code & Wild
💻 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.
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 & bens, 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 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.
- 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.
- Prove your product mindset in a chat with our Product Managers.
- Then a final 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.
