Android Developer

About us

Bloom & Wild is re-inventing the $60B global flower industry. Over a billion flower exchanges take place every year and industry satisfaction levels are low. Driven by our core belief that you can never care too much or be too thoughtful, we do things a little differently. From inventing letterbox flowers to founding The Thoughtful Marketing Movement. And we've seen impressive traction to date - we are Europe's most loved flower and gifting platform, growing at 100% year on year.

2021 has been an exciting year for us! In January we announced our ?75 million Series D funding round, led by General Catalyst (backers of Airbnb and Deliveroo), with participation from multiple other top tier investors including Index Ventures (who have also backed companies such as Transferwise and Glossier). Bloom & Wild acquired bloomon in April 2021 and Bergamotte in July 2021, cementing our position as Europe's leading online flower company. Together, we are active in 8 countries. We are home to a family of 3 strong brands, Bloom & Wild, bloomon and Bergamotte.

We really care about creating a diverse and inclusive team and we welcome people from all backgrounds, with different perspectives, ideas and experiences to work with us. In our team, everyone has the freedom to give their opinion, grow in their career and be part of a genuinely caring and inclusive team.

We have been named one of the 5 fastest growing tech companies in Europe and are alumni of Tech Nation's Future Fifty. We were also one of the Sunday Times Top 100 Small Companies to Work For 2020.

We really care about creating a diverse and inclusive team - so we welcome people from all backgrounds, with different perspectives, ideas and experiences to work with us. In our team, everyone has the freedom to give their opinion, grow in their career and be part of a genuinely caring and inclusive team.

Technology Team at Bloom & Wild

The overall Bloom & Wild team is now over 300 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, engineering manager and app testers. Squads work closely with their Business counterpart team on solutions that accelerate growth both within and outside our UK core business.

Squads' focus areas include:

• The Apps Squad is responsible for Bloom and Wild (and soon bloomon) commercial native mobile apps on both Android and iOS.
• The Apps are used in 5 countries and there will be more in the future! Each country uses its own language local and feature set.
• You can read more about our technology and culture over on our tech blog - Code & Wild.
• The role and ways of working
• You'll take ideas from requirements to production code.
• You will be working in an agile environment and collaborate with all members of the squad.
• You will help us white label our app and introduce design patterns and software architecture that will allow us to scale.
• You will be helping us migrate our majority Java based app to Kotlin.
• You will have the freedom and responsibility to change and improve the app's existing structure.
• You will bring energy and positivity to the role, looking for every opportunity to learn and craft the role around our values; care, pride, customer first, innovation and delight

You

• You are an experienced Android developer (3 years+) with experience in Java & Kotlin.
• Have strong knowledge of mobile architectural and design patterns.
• Are Self-driven with a clear focus on high-quality delivery.
• Have experience collaborating with designers to create designs and UX journeys that scale across the wide range of Android phone dimensions.
• Are comfortable working within a small team of Android developers.
• You are familiar with app CI/CD processes (we use Bitrise.io at the moment).
• You'll be able to make trade offs between tech-debt and releasing value to the customer early, and also be able to clearly articulate the reasoning to stakeholders.
• Have experience with writing and maintaining Unit tests.
• Have experience with at least one dependency injection framework.
• You will have great verbal and written communication.

Nice to haves

• Have experience UI automation test/frameworks on the Android platform.
• Experience around white labeling apps
• Clean architecture
• Reactive architecture and reactive streams
• Deep linking
• IOS development

Working Environment

Currently our full team is working from home and adapting quickly to being totally remote. We pride ourselves in fulfilling our Work From Home Promise - here

In addition to our normal perks and benefits we're supporting each other and maintaining our culture remotely through:

• Twice weekly online yoga class and access to ClassPass workout content
• Birthdays, anniversaries, and special occasions celebrated with the team
• Virtual Stand Up for weekly company updates, and Virtual Monthly Meeting to celebrate our successes and value nominations
• Remote lunch and learns
• Wellbeing support through online coaching sessions and employee assistance program, talking about challenges that we are facing in the current environment
• New slack channels and ways of creating community remotely

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

Currently, the majority of our teams are still working from home. However, in line with government restrictions, we are gradually opening up our beautiful, flower filled office again - for teams to use as much or as little as they'd like. We continue not to expect people to come in as a norm, though managers may ask teams to come in for specific reasons (unless you are a fully remote worker).

Our plan moving forward is to continue to find ways of incorporating remote work into our daily, business as usual, ways of operating. And we have no expectation that our teams will need to come into the office 5 days per week again.

Our perks and benefits:

• 25 days holiday, with an additional day off for your birthday, plus bank holidays, totalling 34 days, per annum. There is also the option to buy an extra 5 days holiday
• Flexible working schedule (core hours from 10-4pm)
• We offer flexible bank holidays so at any time you can trade a bank holiday day off and in its place take off another day that fits better with your beliefs, values and celebration calendar.
• Choose your laptop and any extra equipment you need to do your best work
• Health cash plan through Simplyhealth
• Personal Development Budget
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policy
• Workplace nursery - a salary sacrifice based childcare scheme
• Childcare Vouchers
• Pension Contribution
• Discounts on our blooms!
• Lunch & Learns
• Bloom & Go Wild trips (once we're able to again) - most recently we went to Paris!

Sponsorship

We're proud to hold an A-rated sponsor license, so we can assign certificates of sponsorship. This means we can support applications from anywhere as long as the job is deemed suitable under the points based system

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, inclusive and scale-up culture and those who choose to come into the office, also benefit from:

• Free snacks
• Early finishes on Thursdays & Fridays to spend more time with each other.
• Beer, wine and soft drinks fridge.
• Season ticket loan (scheme currently frozen due to Covid-19).
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• We're a social bunch and plan to re-start our regular company wide events as soon as we can! Previous ones have included in person Summer & Christmas parties, post peak celebrations and regular team lunches.

In addition to our normal perks and benefits we're supporting each other and maintaining our culture remotely through:

• Weekly online yoga class and access to ClassPass workout content.
• Birthdays, anniversaries, and special occasions celebrated.
• Virtual Stand Up for weekly company updates, and Virtual Monthly Meeting to celebrate our successes and value nominations.
• Remote lunch and learns.
• Wellbeing support through our online platform, Spill, which offers online therapy sessions.
• New slack channels and ways of creating community remotely.
• Peak Treats to support our team during our busier times - earlier this year we sent out DIY meal kits from popular restaurants during Valentines & Mother's Day and also collaborated with Graze to send out letterbox snacks to the team.

We apply our five key values of delight, customer first, care, innovation and pride (find out more here), and look to reward those who are demonstrating them exceptionally in their day to day activities.

Our Recruitment Process

Given the current situation in the UK due to COVID-19 the interview process will be conducted remotely. This will involve an interview with:

• 1. Talent Partner for an initial screen
• 2. Engineering Manager in the secondary stage

3. Tech task

4. Tech interview with our tech team

5. Product & Culture interviews

6. Final interview with our CEO, Aron

Your application experience is important to us and we're keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and would love to hear from you directly on how we can improve. If you have any suggestions please feel free to let us know here.