Senior Software Developer

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.

Location: This role can be based out of 500 Lakeshore Blvd W, or 243 Consumers Road

The impact you'll make

As a Senior Software Developer (Backend) you will be building media solutions for Advanced powered by Loblaw. Advance powered by Loblaw™ drives brands forward. We are unlocking Loblaw’s exclusive purchase pattern data, customer intelligence, and millions of daily connections with shoppers to drive growth for our business partners. Backed by both the country’s leading grocery and pharma retailer, and the nation’s leading loyalty program, PC Optimum ™, we have a unique set of assets to help consumer brands reach customers and grow their retail business more effectively. In this role you will leverage your expertise Java and Spring Boot, with the ability work with a wide variety of APIs. You will be part of a growing and collaborative team of Ad Tech developers providing high-quality, polished experiences to various business divisions.

What you’ll do:

• Develop and maintain backend applications
• Work on several proprietary ad tech applications including a high-availability analytics application backed by a big data processing pipeline
• Architecture, design, and development of new features
• Solving complex issues around concurrency, security, performance and scalability
• Lead projects from conception to implementation

What you’ll need:

• Demonstrated knowledge and experience with Java, Spring Boot
• Ability to produce reliable code following good coding principles
• Solid understanding of RESTful APIs and microservice architecture
• Strong proficiency in SQL
• Familiarity working with Git, including pull requests, code reviews, and CI/CD systems
• Uses a collaborative approach to building and debugging complex systems
• Passionate about improving software development workflows / process
• Nice to haves: GCP, React, Kotlin, pgSQL, Redis, MongoDB, OAuth 2, Scala, Python. Ad tech industry knowledge would be beneficial but not necessary

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.