We are the technology team behind the largest growing online flower company in Europe Day-to-day we design, build, integrate and run software that lets three beloved brands in 8 European countries delight our customers with a great eCommerce experience, reliable and fast delivery, and of course beautiful bouquets 💐. …

This post was originally posted on Callum’s personal blog in Feb 2019 As the testing pendulum has swing towards more engineering in recent years we’re facing a new issue, the prevalence of an engineering mono-culture. There’s a view that there’s one “correct” way to do things and this can lead…

As a new tester joining any team, one of the first things that I’ve found beneficial to do is to explain and educate your new teammates on what it is you do. …

Everything started in February 2019. At that time our developers came across a tool called Webpack Bundle Analyser, which, as the name might suggest, helps to visualise and report what’s inside a JavaScript bundle and find out which modules make up the majority of its size, in order to be…

Our VP Engineering, Steve, was recently interviewed by Tech Round about how we use technology to reimagine the experience of buying and receiving flowers. You can read the article here and discover more about our approach to technology, how we use machine learning and what where we’re looking to innovate next. If it all sounds interesting then why not head over to our careers site and find out about the exciting opportunities that we have open in the Technology team?

Hello, my name is Ged, and I work as a senior backend developer here at Bloom & Wild. Today I would like to demonstrate how to refactor a class with a complicated conditional statement into a list processor. Why would we want to do that, you may ask. Well, first…

Hi, I’m Deborah and I was the first tester at Bloom & Wild when I joined in the summer of 2018. There are three sub-areas of our development team: The FrontEnd, which is written in Angular/JavaScript which is the amazing website our customers see The BackEnd which is written in…

I’m Chris Guy, Lead Developer at Bloom & Wild and I’d like to share the work that we have done to improve our customer gift cards. Our Existing Gift Cards At each of our suppliers we have large industrial printers. …

Hi, I’m Steve and I’m VP Engineering here at Bloom & Wild. At the moment we’re 17 people in the Technology team (we are growing and hiring now so do have a look at our open roles if you fancy joining us). We’re split into three smaller, product focused teams…