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.
The impact you'll make
Our team builds the software powering the PC Express application. Every day we are dedicated to our core value of placing the "Customer at the Centre". A successful day for us is one where we can go home knowing we made a positive difference in the lives of Canadians, because we genuinely care about the people that use our platform. Building software is great, but building software that impacts lives is that much more rewarding.
You will be a steadfast voice for our customers in delivering quality user interfaces and platforms that are both performant and accessible in our native application. Every day, you will push our team to improve our software standards and best practices, settling for nothing less than excellence. Using your experience, you will deliver high quality software and features that make our users' lives
This is a hands-on role where you will work with million+ download customer facing apps as well as in-store colleague facing apps. As a Mobile Developer, you'll work with the latest native mobile languages, while interfacing with RESTful Java-based API's. Your day-to-day work will involve working on one of several of our sophisticated, customer & colleague facing apps. Expect to contribute your expertise in native mobile design as well as your technical experience in creating an impactful, maintainable apps. You'll often be working closely with our user experience groups to build and implement attractive mobile apps.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and maintain native mobile applications for iOS
- Participate in code reviews and architecture reviews
- Ensure the performance, quality, and responsiveness of applications
- Collaborate with a team to define, design, and ship new features
- Taking ownership, writing UnitTest and UITest as part of development norm
- Mentor Junior iOS developers
Does this sound like you?
- Excellent iOS development skills with Swift and/or Objective-C
- Detailed knowledge about a variety of iOS frameworks
- Keen awareness and understanding of performance, security, and other software engineering standard methodologies
- The ability to pick up technology quickly. We don't say "I'm not familiar with that technology," without adding, "but let me read up on it, and I'll get back to you on it."
- Proven understanding of RESTful API design
- Communication skills are paramount. Detailing once is not enough; being able to explain something in5 different ways is key.
- You enjoy taking ownership of your work in an environment where leadership is a shared responsibility.
- Familiarity with functional programming
- Experience with Gitflow workflow, CI/CD pipelines, RxSwift, Realm, Fastlane, and some parts of the Google Cloud Platform
- Show us your past projects! We'll specifically be looking for how you decided to craft your application, and of course how you decided to get it deployed and ready for customers.
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.
