Senior Android Developer

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?

Please note, Loblaw's Return to Office Policy is 4 days in the office

Our team creates the software powering the PC Express, Shoppers Drug Mart, Joe Fresh. Every day we live and breathe our core value of placing the "Customer at the Centre". A successful day for us is one where we can go home knowing we made a positive difference in the lives of Canadians because we genuinely care about the people that use our platform. Building software is great, but building software that impacts lives is that much more rewarding.

To be part of our group is to always be looking for the best way to do something for our customers. As a digital business, we diligently adhere to the Build, Measure, Learn feedback loop. We build things to see how they perform in the real world, measure that performance, and use the results to test our assumptions and hypothesis. Sometimes that may mean a great idea or piece of code has to go away, but that is a small price to pay to ensure we are building the right things and solving the needs of our users.

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.
• 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.
• Provide technical guidance and support in resolving critical issues.
• Offer your input and expertise to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Deliver high-quality code along with applicable unit and integration tests.
  
  

Does This Sound Like You?

• You are a proficient Android developer with at least 5 years of software development experience
• You have previously worked on enterprise applications
• Fluent in Kotlin using latest technologies including Kotlin flows and coroutines as well as RX Java
• Familiar with Swagger, Jira
• Comfortable working with backend developers
• GitLab for repository management
• This person must be a great communicator and can provide continuous updates to the EM. Able to present complicated solutions to non-technical audiences in a simple and logical way.
  
  

Ideally you have experience in some of:

• Experience with macro services and backend development.
• You make decisions based on data. You are proficient with tools to measure every aspect of the application;
• Familiar with IOS
  
  

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.

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’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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