Junior Android Engineer
London
Tech – Bloom & Wild /
Contract /
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.
⚙️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 Engineering team is six, cross-functional, Product Engineering squads, who each own their own business and architectural domain and are supported by our Platform, Architecture, Data and IT teams.
Our platform uses technologies including Ruby on Rails and Python/ React. It exposes APIs that are used by our multi-brand Angular web app and our native iOS and Android mobile apps. On Android, we are migrating the project to use Clean Architecture with MVI and Jetpack Compose.
Most of our team is based in the UK or The Netherlands and works in a flexible model, with a choice in how often they travel to the office. Our squads meet in person at least once per quarter 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 the Apps 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
✅ What Excites Us: Ideal Qualities for This Android Role
- Have a foundational understanding and practical experience with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, along with basic knowledge of XML, gained through personal projects or relevant coursework/entry-level roles.
- Have a quality mindset and a passion for writing clean code while also keeping an eye for opportunities for improvements.
- Possess a good understanding of the Android Activity Lifecycle, including how to manage main and background threads effectively.
- Understand the importance of practices such as version control and CI/CD, and have used industry-recognised tools to follow them.
- Bring a positive and resilient attitude to the team, effectively navigating challenges and contributing constructively to a supportive work environment.
- Actively participate in collaborative, data-driven, and experimental approaches to problem-solving.
- Are keen to learn and stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and value sharing your knowledge with your peers.
- Some basic knowledge of Java.
- Some knowledge about testing and creating testable code.
- Some knowledge of dependency injection.
- Experience working on an e-commerce app.
- Have exposure to established architectural patterns like Clean Architecture or MVI, and are eager to learn their underlying principles and practical application.
It would be great if you also have...
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. If your application is 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.
- Interview with Aleksandar, Engineering Manager for the Apps squad to get into the details.
- Technical interview with Matteo, Paulo or Sri, our Android devs to assess your technical abilities.
- Interview with Kate and Gabe from our Product team
- A final chat with Martin from our Product & Technology leadership team.
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.
