Software Development Manager

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?

As a Software Development Manager, you will report to the Senior Software Development Manager and will lead the team to build, improve, and maintain services in buy domain for a world-class, multi-channel digital platform. This is a rare opportunity to lead a team that will build new technology that will operate at a massive scale and impact the lives of millions of Canadians.

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?

How you'll succeed?

Our commitment to sustainability and social impact is a core part of how we do business. We focus our attention on areas where we can have the greatest impact. Our approach to sustainability and social impact is based on three pillars : environment, procurement, and community.

We offer our colleagues progressive careers, comprehensive training, flexibility, and extensive competitive benefits—just a few of the many reasons we're ranked among Canada's Top Employers, Canada's Best Diversity Employers, Canada's Greenest Employers, and Canada's Top Employers for Young People.

We have long focused 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 accommodations due to a disability can be made at any stage of the application and employment process.

We encourage candidates to make their accommodation needs known so that we can offer equitable opportunities.

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.

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