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.
You will be working on the Shoppers Drug Mart eCommerce team as a Senior Full-Stack developer. Our cross-functional teams consist of software developers, designers, product owners, marketing, and trading analysts. In concert with your colleagues, you will be building, improving, and maintaining a world-class, multi-channel Online eCommerce platform. You will have exposure to every aspect of the software development cycle, and you will be encouraged to express your opinions and challenge assumptions.
**Please note this is a hybrid role - 3 days in office and 2 days role**
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.
- Help modernize the way we work—such as making developer onboarding more seamless, helping build out our automation, implementing chaos testing, etc.
- Assist in the design of software components to enhance our portfolio.
- Construct design documents and documentation to aid in maintenance and code reuse.
- Through your knowledge of industry trends and tools, together with your own experiences, work with the team to improve our software, our environment, and our process.
- Provide guidance and direction to the development teams to tear down obstacles and keep initiatives on target and moving forward.
- Organize, prioritize, and manage multiple projects and multiple stakeholders simultaneously.
- Provide technical guidance and support in resolving critical issues.
- Offer your input and expertise to technical and non-technical audiences
Does This Sound Like You
- You have a minimum of 5-7 years of experience with full stack software development.
- You have solid experience in Java, Spring Boot.
- Have worked with NextJS and React, integrated Cloud services (Google Cloud Platform or AWS).
- You’re an emerging leader and look forward to owning initiatives and architectural changes. You’re looking for a place to land where you can make a difference.
- You’re passionate about building rock solid software and opinionated about what good looks like.
- You believe in delivering incremental value rapidly with continuous integration and deployments. You swear by short lead times and cycle times.
- You’ve used and built, CI/CD pipelines and now wouldn’t work any other way.
- You are a committed cloud technologist who preferentially develops software to be deployed on cloud and seeks operational excellence on cloud.
- You have a hunger to learn and are open to change, which is evident in your constant hunt to improve yourself, our team, and our products.
- Experience with Event Driven Architecture.
We are hoping to find someone with as many of the following as possible:
- Ability to craft a full-stack solution which involves solutioning at the FE layer, BFF/Middleware/Orchestration layer, and BE layer.
- Familiarity with Reactive Programming
- Familiarity with Server Driven UI
- Familiarity with TDD (Test driven development).
- Experience with writing Unit and Integration test cases using frameworks like JUnit and Cucumber.
- Solid experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs.
- An understanding of token-based authentication.
- CI/CD experience (similar experience to one of GitLab IC, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, etc.)
- Ability to configure a Dockerfile for use in a build pipeline or for local development.
- You are opinionated about what it takes to produce great software but remain receptive to others’ ideas.
- You care about ownership. You proactively seek out bugs and fix them. Occasionally, when bugs find you, you don’t sweep them under the rug.
- You are experienced with software estimation, often confronted with complexity and uncertainty.
- You make decisions based on data. You are versed with tools to measure every aspect of the application.
- You have developed large applications in a team environment.
- You are not afraid of changes. Armed with excellent refactoring techniques, you work effectively with legacy code.
- You are a good communicator. You can present complicated solutions to non-technical audiences in a simple and logical way.
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.
