Software Development Manager
Loblaw Digital
Date: 5 hours ago
City: Toronto, ON
Contract type: Full time
At Loblaw Digital, we know that our customers expect the best from us. Whether that means building the best, most innovative online shopping experience, or designing an app that will impact the lives of people across the country, we’re up for the challenge. From our office in Downtown Toronto, we’ve created leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, and apparel spaces, and we’re only just getting started.
Why is this role important?
Why is this role important?
At Loblaw Digital, we know that our customers expect the best from us. Whether that means building the best, most innovative online shopping experience, or designing an app that will impact the lives of people across the country, we’re up for the challenge. From our office in Downtown Toronto, we’ve created leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, and apparel spaces, and we’re only just getting started.
As a Software Development Manager, you will report to the Senior Software Development Manager and will lead the team to build, improve, and maintain services in buy domain for a world-class, multi-channel digital platform. This is a rare opportunity to lead a team that will build new technology that will operate at a massive scale and impact the lives of millions of Canadians.
What You'll Do
Our commitment to sustainability and social impact is a core part of how we do business. We focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars: environment, procurement, and community. We are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our BE values—Commitment, Care, Respect, and Excellence—guide all our decision-making and are brought to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and extensive competitive benefits—just a few of the many reasons we're ranked among Canada's Top Employers, Canada's Best Diversity Employers, Canada's Greenest Employers, and Canada's Top Employers for Young People.
If you're unsure if your experience matches all the above requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway. We seek diverse applicants, including diverse backgrounds, to add to our team.
We have long focused 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 accommodations due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of the application and employment process. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can offer equitable opportunities.
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.
If you have big ideas, undeniable enthusiasm, and thrive in a collaborative, creative, and diverse group, we’ll get along just fine.
Looking for a challenge? Good. Love an innovative work environment? Even better.
Apply today.
Employment Type:
Full time
Type of Role:
Regular
Loblaw Digital recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.
In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.
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#SS #LD #ON
Why is this role important?
Why is this role important?
At Loblaw Digital, we know that our customers expect the best from us. Whether that means building the best, most innovative online shopping experience, or designing an app that will impact the lives of people across the country, we’re up for the challenge. From our office in Downtown Toronto, we’ve created leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, and apparel spaces, and we’re only just getting started.
As a Software Development Manager, you will report to the Senior Software Development Manager and will lead the team to build, improve, and maintain services in buy domain for a world-class, multi-channel digital platform. This is a rare opportunity to lead a team that will build new technology that will operate at a massive scale and impact the lives of millions of Canadians.
What You'll Do
- Cultivate a deep understanding of the portfolio of applications we utilize, along with their respective strengths and weaknesses, to provide solutions to existing and future challenges.
- Lead technical architecture for a whole component and/or cross-functional team.
- Define the long-term vision for your team, aligning with the company's strategic and tactical goals.
- Translate project goals and product roadmaps into organized technical tasks.
- Through your knowledge of industry trends and tools, together with your own experiences, guide the team to improve our software, our environment, and our process.
- Provide guidance and direction to the development team to tear down obstacles and keep initiatives on target and moving forward.
- Coach and mentor developers in the team through technical design sessions, code reviews and pair programming.
- Provide technical guidance and support in resolving critical production issues.
- Collaborate with business and product stakeholders to successfully deliver new features and capabilities.
- Construct design documents and documentation to aid in maintenance and code reuse.
- Set clear objectives, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance evaluations to ensure the team's success
- A deep understanding of software development with a minimum of 5 years hands-on programming expertise. While you may not code every day, understanding the context of your team’s work is paramount
- A track record of successfully mentoring and growing other software developers in your previous roles as a direct manager.
- Opinionated about what it takes to produce great software but remains receptive to others’ ideas.
- Experienced with software estimation, often confronted with complexity and uncertainty.
- Makes decisions based on data. You are well versed with tools to measure every aspect of the application and your team.
- Developed large applications in a team environment and are comfortable working in a very collaborative cross-functional team setup.
- A great communicator. You can present complicated solutions to non-technical audience in a simple and logical way
- Open minded, likes to learn and share knowledge and always looks out for “a better way” to do something.
- Develop complex consumer facing software using Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot and Cloud technologies (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure)
- Practical experience with event-based architecture, reactive system design, SQL/NoSQL databases - preferably PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
- Up-to-date knowledge of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in full stack development, backend infrastructure
- Nice to have Adtech, ecommerce domain knowledge and experience working with advertisement platforms
Our commitment to sustainability and social impact is a core part of how we do business. We focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars: environment, procurement, and community. We are constantly looking for ways to demonstrate leadership in these important areas. Our BE values—Commitment, Care, Respect, and Excellence—guide all our decision-making and are brought to life through our Blue Culture. We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and extensive competitive benefits—just a few of the many reasons we're ranked among Canada's Top Employers, Canada's Best Diversity Employers, Canada's Greenest Employers, and Canada's Top Employers for Young People.
If you're unsure if your experience matches all the above requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway. We seek diverse applicants, including diverse backgrounds, to add to our team.
We have long focused 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 accommodations due to a disability (which may be visible or invisible, temporary or permanent) can be made at any stage of the application and employment process. We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can offer equitable opportunities.
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.
If you have big ideas, undeniable enthusiasm, and thrive in a collaborative, creative, and diverse group, we’ll get along just fine.
Looking for a challenge? Good. Love an innovative work environment? Even better.
Apply today.
Employment Type:
Full time
Type of Role:
Regular
Loblaw Digital recognizes Canada's diversity as a source of national pride and strength. We have made it a priority to reflect our nation’s evolving diversity in the products we sell, the people we hire, and the culture we create in our organization. Accommodation is available upon request for applicants with disabilities in the recruitment and assessment process and when hired.
In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct – it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.
#EN
#SS #LD #ON
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