Senior Developer, Backend

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?

Looking for a challenge? Good. Love an innovative work environment? Even better.

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.

We're able to keep innovating because our colleagues are passionate about their work and excited about the future of loyalty and eCommerce. If you have big ideas, undeniable enthusiasm, and thrive in a collaborative, creative, and diverse group, we'll get along just fine.

Why is this role important? 

As a Senior Backend Developer in this role, you will be working as a member of the Development team for PC Optimum loyalty application.

You will have exposure to every aspect of the software development cycle, and you will be encouraged to express your opinions and challenge assumptions. You will have guidance from Tech Lead on technology and architecture to ensure code quality and better development practices. Reporting to the Software Development Manager, you will lead the design, development, and optimization of systems operating at massive scale.

If you are passionate about solving meaningful technical challenges, mentoring others, and building systems that have a tangible impact on millions of people, this is the role for you.

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.

• Build and maintain reliable, secure, and performant APIs to power Loblaw Digital’s platforms and services.

• 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.

• Take end-to-end responsibility for features, ensuring they are delivered with quality and on time.

What You'll Need:

• 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, Spring framework ecosystems, Microservices, Junit, Gradle, Swagger, Hoverfly

  • Database design and performance tuning

  • Docker, Kubernetes, Istio

  • Logging, monitoring and alerting

  • CI/CD (Gitlab, Jenkins, Team City)

  • Experience with TDD

We are hoping to find someone with as many of the following as possible:

• • Strong experience building and maintaining RESTful APIs

  • Strong understanding of systems and microservices design

  • Experience designing and building distributed systems

  • Knowledge of computer networks and security

  • Some site reliability engineering experience

  • Some understanding of cloud architecture in GCP or other cloud providers

  • Bonus if you have knowledge or worked with Server Driven UI architecture

• 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! 

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.

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.

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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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