Software Development Manager - Mobile

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. 

The impact you'll make

You will be leading the team that works on software powering Loblaw's e-commerce platform experiences. You will hold responsibility for identifying bottlenecks in the process and roadblocks to success for the team and clearing these roadblocks.

You will report to the Director of Software Development and will lead the team to build, improve, and maintain a world-class, multi-channel e-commerce 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. 
• Have one-on-one meetings with your team members. 
• Conduct performance reviews. Set accountability for team members.

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 other's 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.
• Experience working with Android and iOS applications 
• Develop consumer facing applications using Kotlin, Swift, RxJava/RxKotlin, Coroutines, RxSwift.
• Good understanding of SOLID principles and reactive design pattern
• A strong understanding of Security Architecture.

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.