Remote Lead Engineer (Ruby)

• Deliver the engineering roadmap for our squad.
• Drive technical strategy within the team and ensure alignment with overall business strategy.
• Ensure non-functional requirements such as performance and security are considered and met throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Resolve complex technical challenges and provide guidance to other team members.
• Mentor and support the development of other engineers within the team.
• Lead projects and initiatives, ensuring successful delivery and execution.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement within the Engineering team.

Technologies:

• AI
• AWS
• Angular
• Cucumber
• GCP
• GitHub
• Support
• Machine Learning
• PostgreSQL
• Python
• RSpec
• Rails
• React
• Ruby
• Security
• Cloud
• Android
• Embedded
• Mobile
• iOS
• microservices

• You are an experienced Ruby developer with 5+ years of experience, with detailed knowledge of Ruby on Rails in a production environment and front-end development experience using frameworks like Angular or React.
• You have experience working with RESTful APIs, version control tools such as GitHub, CI tools such as Codebuild, and testing tools like RSpec/Cucumber or similar.
• You have experience with distributed service architectures, including how to test and release them and maintain system stability when making changes independent of other services.
• You can use observability tooling to understand, diagnose, improve, debug, measure, and visualise platform health.
• You stay up to date with the latest technologies, including AI such as machine learning for personalisation or process automation.
• You have experience breaking down complex problems into incremental, manageable, valuable chunks.
• You take a collaborative, data-driven, and experimental approach and can foster this mindset in others.
• You can get going quickly, understand complex systems, and communicate effectively with non-technical team members.
• You are an experienced leader, mentor, and coach who can support and elevate those around you.
• It would be great if you have experience working in a fast-growing, preferably consumer-facing startup or scaleup.
• It would be great if you are flexible and excited about using different languages and frameworks to solve problems, and enjoy helping others do the same.

We are Bloom & Wild, founded in 2013 with a mission to make sending and receiving flowers a joy through technology, brand, and letterbox delivery. We have fulfilled over 20 million deliveries and are the largest direct-to-consumer flower business in Europe. We secured £75 million in Series D funding in 2021 and expanded through the acquisition of bloomon in the Netherlands and Bergamotte in France. We are now building a family of three brands and growing our gifting offering into cakes, candles, and cocktails as part of our ambition to become Europes #1 direct-to-consumer gifting destination. Our Technology team powers our e-commerce, production, and fulfillment platforms using Ruby, Rails, Python, React, PostgreSQL, AWS, and GCP, and most of our team is based in the UK or the Netherlands with a flexible working model and quarterly in-person squad meetups. You will join our E-commerce team, specifically the Subscription & Retention squad, within a broader technology organization of nearly 60 people and a company of over 400. We value inclusion, belonging, collaboration, empathy, knowledge sharing, and growth, and we offer flexible working and work from abroad, 25 days holiday plus your birthday and flexible bank holidays, the option to buy extra holiday, one volunteering day per year, enhanced family leave, a workplace nursery scheme, and a flexible training framework for every stage of your career. last updated 28 week of 2026