At Loblaw Digital, we know that our customers expect the best from us. Whether that means building the best, most innovative online shopping experiences, or designing an app that will impact the lives of people across the country, we’re up for the challenge. Loblaw Digital is the team responsible for building and operating the online businesses of Canada’s largest and most successful retailer. Based in downtown Toronto, we are an entrepreneurial, fast-paced, and collaborative team working towards transforming the way Canadians shop by creating leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, loyalty, and apparel spaces, and we’re only just getting started! To achieve these goals, we are looking for talented and passionate individuals who want to collaborate and solve challenging problems and make significant and lasting impact on Canadians.
As a Senior Developer (Backend), you will be working with colleagues on the Promotions and Pricing Engine (PPE) team and report to the Software Development Manager. You will have exposure to every aspect of the software development cycle, and you will be encouraged to express your opinions and challenge assumptions. This is a rare opportunity to build new technology that will operate at a massive scale and impact the lives of millions of Canadians. From timely data ingestion to performant APIs, from complex business logic to the tooling for the internal stakeholders, the PPE team is building the software ecosystem that handles the prices and promotions for all Loblaw Digital e-commerce businesses.
What You'll Do
- Curate your space as an individual contributor, while also maintaining technical relationships with your peers.
- Design, develop, and maintain the software which delivers exceptional performances across board.
- Construct design documents and documentation to aid in maintenance and code re-use.
- Collaborate with cross-platform teams for internal and external integrations.
- Participate in scaling and operational activities of the service
- Provide support in resolving critical issues and participating in post-production activities.
- Coach and mentor junior developers
- Translate project goals and product roadmaps into organized technical tasks
- Provide technical guidance and support in resolving critical issues.
Does This Sound Like You?
- You are a pro backend developer, and are eager to work in a fast-paced environment
- You should have experience with some of the following:
- Java or Kotlin, Spring boot framework
- Database design and performance tuning
- Docker, Kubernetes, Istio
- Logging, monitoring and alerting
- CI/CD (Gitlab, Jenkins, Team City)
We are hoping to find someone with as many of the following as possible:
- Strong experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs
- Experience designing and building distributed systems
- Knowledge of computer networks and security
- Some site reliability engineering experience
- Some understanding of cloud architecture in GCP
- You care about owning your piece of work, and proactively work on improving it.
- You are a team collaborator and express your technical opinions to your seniors.
- You have worked on large applications in a team environment
- You have an experience with code refactoring and are comfortable with performing changes in the code.
- You are a good communicator. You can present complicated solutions to non-technical audience in a simple and logical way
- You make decisions based on data. You are versed with tools to measure every aspect of the application.
How you’ll succeed
At Loblaw Digital, we seek great people to continually strengthen our culture. We believe great people model our values, are authentic, build trust and make connections. We’re able to keep innovating because our colleagues are passionate about their work and excited about the future of eCommerce. You will get to work with some of the best digital minds and will have the support of world class technologies to craft products our customers will love!
If you are unsure whether your experience matches every requirement above, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are looking for varied perspectives which include diverse experiences that we can add to our team.
We have a long-standing focus on diversity, equity and inclusion because we know it will make our company a better place to work and shop. We are committed to creating accessible environments for our colleagues, candidates and customers. Requests for accommodation due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of application and employment. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can provide equitable opportunities.
