Top Benefits
About the 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.
- 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
Does this Sound like you?
- 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.
- 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
About Loblaw Companies Limited
Our Purpose – Live Life Well
Loblaw Companies Limited is Canada’s food and pharmacy leader, the nation’s largest retailer, and the majority unit holder of Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust. Loblaw – and its portfolio of grocery, health and beauty, financial services and apparel businesses – provides Canadians with an unparalleled mix of value, assortment and convenience, and offers Canadians two of the country’s most recognized brands – President’s Choice and no name.
The acquisition of Shoppers Drug Mart, along with the powerful Life Brand and Optimum brand, has only served to reinforce our leadership position in the marketplace. As well, our PC Plus program, omni-channel efforts and multicultural merchandising offerings continued to be points of differentiation for our customer experience.
In 2019, Loblaw has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Best Diversity Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT FRAUD AFFECTING OUR JOBSEEKERS.
Please be advised that recruitment fraud has affected a number of Canadian companies. In such schemes, individuals posing as legitimate recruiters may request personal information and payment from those seeking employment.
Loblaw Companies Limited, its subsidiaries, and recruiting agencies will never ask for payment at any stage in the recruitment process. All legitimate postings may be accessed via our career website.
Top Benefits
About the 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.
- 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
Does this Sound like you?
- 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.
- 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
About Loblaw Companies Limited
Our Purpose – Live Life Well
Loblaw Companies Limited is Canada’s food and pharmacy leader, the nation’s largest retailer, and the majority unit holder of Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust. Loblaw – and its portfolio of grocery, health and beauty, financial services and apparel businesses – provides Canadians with an unparalleled mix of value, assortment and convenience, and offers Canadians two of the country’s most recognized brands – President’s Choice and no name.
The acquisition of Shoppers Drug Mart, along with the powerful Life Brand and Optimum brand, has only served to reinforce our leadership position in the marketplace. As well, our PC Plus program, omni-channel efforts and multicultural merchandising offerings continued to be points of differentiation for our customer experience.
In 2019, Loblaw has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers, Best Diversity Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc.
IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT FRAUD AFFECTING OUR JOBSEEKERS.
Please be advised that recruitment fraud has affected a number of Canadian companies. In such schemes, individuals posing as legitimate recruiters may request personal information and payment from those seeking employment.
Loblaw Companies Limited, its subsidiaries, and recruiting agencies will never ask for payment at any stage in the recruitment process. All legitimate postings may be accessed via our career website.