Job Description

Referred applicants should not apply directly to this role.

All referred applicants must first be submitted through Workday by a current Loblaw Colleague.

Location: 500 Lakeshore Blvd. West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V 2V9

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\xe2\x80\x99re up for the challenge. From our office in Downtown Toronto, we\xe2\x80\x99ve created leading eCommerce experiences in the online grocery shopping, beauty, pharmacy, and apparel spaces, and we\xe2\x80\x99re only just getting started.

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 experiences, or designing an app that will impact the lives of people across the country, we\xe2\x80\x99re up for the challenge. Loblaw Digital is the team responsible for building and operating the online businesses of Canada\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99re 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 a significant and lasting impact on Canadians.

As a Staff Developer for our Android PC Express team, you will be responsible for overseeing the technical vision and quality for the PC Express Android application. Partnering with the Engineering Manager for your group, you will define the technical metrics and outcomes for the team to strive towards. Using your extensive knowledge and experience in mobile application development, you will work with the other developers on those applications to further their growth and abilities.

What You\'ll Do

Define and drive the technical vision for the PC Express Android team

Find ways to teach and level-up the technical skills of those developers using your knowledge and expertise

Be an advocate for the architecture of our Android application, ensuring we are following best-practices and avoiding as much technical debt as possible

Look out and advocate for opportunities to improve our technical processes to enable the best performance out of our teams as possible

Lead by example in writing great code

Does This Sound Like You?

You are an expert in mobile application software development, with 7+ years in-depth knowledge on Android. As a bonus, you have experience with iOS software development as well

While technology moves rapidly, you understand the strategies for writing quality software are more universal. You are passionate about teaching those strategies to other developers to help them advance their understanding and careers

A solid understanding of Object Oriented Programming, MVC, MVVM and Android application architecture

Experience using RxJava or RxKotlin

You love to write code every day, and the code you write clearly demonstrates engineering best practices

Keen awareness and understanding of performance, accessibility, security, and other key software development concerns of operating at scale

Demonstrated aptitude in system design

Experience with Gitflow workflow, CI/CD pipelines, enterprise app distribution, and cloud native platforms (GCP, AWS, etc.)

You enjoy taking ownership of your work in an environment where leadership is a shared responsibility

Ability to write and maintain unit tests using JUnit

Experience working with Contentful or other content management solutions is a plus

Experience using Jetpack compose or Coroutine is a plus

You meet most of this criteria and think this is the role for you - reach out and tell us why!

How You\xe2\x80\x99ll 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\xe2\x80\x99re 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\xe2\x80\x99ll 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\xe2\x80\x99s 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 \xe2\x80\x93 it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expect of us.

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