Senior Ruby Developer - Fulfillment

About Bloom & Wild

We believe that you should be able to be there from anywhere with flowers for those you love. Easily order our British designs to send in seconds to be delivered next day through the letterbox.

It's flowers, delivered with love.

Our team of in-house floral designers create bouquets weekly, changing with styles and seasons to ensure that only the best flowers are sent out.

Our range is centred around innovative designs and products. From letterbox flowers to hand-tied bouquets, roses to mini pineapples, we go beyond our customers' wildest floral imaginations. We’re always sourcing creative blooms to delight our customers.

Our designs are inspired by popular culture, fashion and interiors. Each is crafted with the idea of an English country garden in mind - beautiful with a touch of wild and whimsy.

We source our flowers seasonally, responsibly and carefully. Each bloom we work with is quality tested for longevity and beauty, we don't settle for second best.

Position

The overall Bloom & Wild team is now 150 people. You will join one of our core squads in our Technology team, each consisting of a small, close-knit team of developers, a product manager and a tester. Squads work closely with their Business counterpart team on solutions that accelerate growth both within and outside our UK core business.

Squad's focus areas include:

• Critical core technology that lies at the heart of our company's expansion, and is used by both our internal teams and our external suppliers
• Using technology to help build our warehouse technology, expand into international markets, develop new distribution channels, and support the development of new products and services
• Supporting our broader strategy to break up our platform into a set of smaller services

You can read more about our technology and culture over on our tech blog - Code & Wild.

The role and ways of working

• You’ll play a part in delivering your squad's and the Technology team's roadmaps. This will mean writing, reviewing and supporting code in our platform, taking ideas from requirements to production code, and being responsible for quality at every step along the way
• You’ll work with some great technology. Our backend platform, currently using Ruby 2.6.5 and Rails 6 is backed by PostgreSQL, Fargate/ECS on AWS, with APIs that are used by our Angular 7 webapp and our native mobile apps. We are also looking to develop new microservices in GoLang in an event-driven, serverless architecture
• You will bring energy and positivity to the role, looking for opportunities to learn and craft the role around our values; care, pride, customer first, innovation and delight 
• For our senior members and above, there is an expectation to participate in our compensated out of hours support on a rota basis throughout the year, inline with our Out of Hours policy

Your qualification

• As a senior Ruby developer (5 years+) you’ll have solid understanding of Ruby on Rails in a production environment and some experience of TDD. You will also have experience of good CI/CD and observability practices
• 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
• Experience working with RESTful APIs, version control (like GitHub), CI (like Codebuild), and testing tools like RSpec/Cucumber
• You’ll be keen to stay up-to-date with the latest technologies, favour working on usable MVPs, and using real customer feedback to continuously iterate and improve our technology. We provide a healthy learning and development budget and the opportunity to take time off work to use it
• You’ll take a collaborative, empirical and experimental approach to solving problems

Will be a plus

• We encourage developers to be full stack, so if you’re familiar with front-end, have experience as a full stack developer or an interest in infrastructure then that’s a huge plus
• Experience working in a fast-growing (preferably consumer-facing) startup
• Previous experience of working with warehouse or stock management systems

What we offer

Working environment
Our full team is currently working remotely. In addition to our normal perks and benefits we’re supporting each other and maintaining our culture remotely through:

• Regular virtual yoga classes with more virtual exercise variety to come!
• Celebrating birthdays with letterbox cake
• Weekly updates from our senior team
• Remote lunch and learns
• Supporting our wellbeing through online support sessions, access to wellbeing specialists, and employee assistance programs.
• Specialist online support to talk about the challenges we are facing in the current environment

Return to work and our new normal

The team's safety and wellbeing is our primary concern during this period and our return to our flower filled office will be gradual, considered and only when we feel safe to do so. Whilst recognising that some of us will prefer to be office-based, this period has shown we can adopt remote work very well and our plan moving forward is to find ways of continuing to incorporate remote work.

When we're in the office

Our lovely, light and spacious office is conveniently located close to Vauxhall and Oval stations in London. We have an informal, startup culture, with employee-friendly policies such as:

• 25 days holiday, with an additional day off for your birthday, plus bank holidays, totalling 34 days, per annum
• Free breakfast, snacks and team lunches
• Season ticket loan
• Childcare Vouchers
• Health cash plan through SimplyHealth
• Personal Development Budget
• Family Friendly Policy - including enhanced family friendly packages and a salary sacrifice childcare scheme
• Pension Contribution
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Lunch & Learns
• Discounted blooms
• Bloom & Go Wild trips - most recently we went to Paris!

We apply our five key values (delight, customer first, care, innovation and pride) in our day to day activities and reward those who are encompassing them exceptionally. Everyone is friendly and sociable, with regular company-wide events.

Before you start you will be able to choose whatever laptop you need, a widescreen monitor to plug into and whatever other tools you need.

See more on life at Bloom & Wild here.

Additional details

Communication and all issues related to the position are curated by the recruitment partner of Bloom & Wild.