Junior Data Engineer

Bloom & Wild; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK online flower and gifting company is looking for a Junior Data Engineer to contribute to their data platform. You will learn to build data pipelines, work with cloud technologies, and collaborate closely with experienced team members. Ideal candidates are curious about programming, enthusiastic about problem-solving, and thrive in a diverse and inclusive environment. This position offers flexible working hours and a variety of employee perks.

Benefits

Flexible working & work from abroad

25 days holiday + your birthday

Volunteering day each year

Enhanced family leave

Flexible training framework

Discounts on products

Equity options from day 1

Qualifications

• Interest in programming and databases.
• Eager to develop technical skills.
• Willingness to learn engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data pipelines using AWS.
• Develop custom pipelines in Python.
• Implement data validation checks.

Skills

SQL

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Tools

Python

AWS

Terraform

Snowflake

Job description

Overview

Hi, we’re Bloom & Wild. 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. Together, we’ve fulfilled over 20 million deliveries (and counting!), making us the largest direct to consumer flower business in Europe.

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.

We announced £75 million Series D funding in 2021 and that same year acquired bloomon in The Netherlands and Bergamotte in France. 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.

Data Engineering @ Bloom & Wild

Data is at the heart of what we do at Bloom & Wild. The Data Engineering team builds and maintains our data platform that makes this possible - ensuring data is reliable, accessible, and ready for use across the company. Our work powers machine learning models, analytics and reporting. We collaborate closely with business intelligence, data science, product engineers, product managers, and CRM roles.

Our work spans the entire data lifecycle - from developing and optimizing data ingestion processes to transforming and exporting data for analysis. We handle scheduling and orchestration of data workflows, ensuring they run reliably and on time. We also manage and provision the infrastructure to support our data platform. In addition to data platform development, we partner with other teams to help optimise data queries aiming to improve performance, manage costs, and assist with complex data transformations.

Our team is based in the UK and works in a flexible model, with choice in how often we travel to the office. Our team meets 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

Please note: This role does not currently offer visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.

What you’ll be doing

• As a junior data engineer, you'll have the opportunity to learn and contribute to building and maintaining our data platform. You'll work alongside experienced team members to develop your skills while contributing to our platform’s growth.
• In your day-to-day, you will be involved in building and maintaining data pipelines using AWS Database Migration Service.
• Learn to develop custom pipelines in Python using the Meltano framework.
• Participate in developing data transformations using dbt.
• Learn to manage resources across Snowflake and AWS environments using Terraform.
• Assist in implementing data validation checks, writing tests and updating documentation.
• Help monitor, debug and improve the performance of our data platform with Datadog.
• Collaborate with your squad to deliver work in small, valuable increments using agile practices.

You’ll love this role if you are…

• Looking for a role where you can learn about engineering practices and modern data infrastructure.
• Curious about programming and eager to develop your technical skills.
• Familiar with SQL or have an interest in working with databases.
• Excited about problem-solving and love to take a logical and collaborative approach to finding solutions.
• Keen to work in a kind, inclusive, and supportive environment where people care about their work and each other.

It would be great if you also have…

• Experience using Python, especially for working with data and automation tasks.
• Exposure to cloud platforms (e.g. AWS), cloud-based data warehouses like Snowflake and version control tools like git.
• Experience working on an e-commerce site or in a fast-growing (preferably consumer-facing) company.

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 Bloom & Wild 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.

1. Apply below (it takes 2 minutes!). If you are successful you can expect:
2. 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.
3. Interview with Daria, Lead Data Engineer to get into more of the detail.
4. Show us how you work through a technical challenge, which can be a live paired coding/whiteboard session.
5. Demonstrate how you communicate, collaborate, and connect technical work to business goals.
6. Final chat with Tonci, our Head of Engineering and either Steve, our VP of Engineering, or Joe, our Chief Product & Technology Officer.

Please note: This role does not currently offer visa sponsorship. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.

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.