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Director, Software Engineering

@ Loblaw

Toronto, Ontario

Full-time3+ years experienceBilingual
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Overview

Loblaw Digital is hiring a Director, Software Engineering to lead engineers and software development managers building Loblaw's online grocery, pharmacy, beauty and apparel platforms in downtown Toronto. The role owns technical strategy, architecture decisions and delivery across internal and outsourced onshore and offshore teams. Full-time, with a salary range of $170,000 to $220,000 per year.

Responsibilities:

  • Diriger et encadrer une équipe d'ingénieurs et de gestionnaires de développement
  • Assurer la livraison des nouvelles expériences numériques
  • Coordonner les équipes internes, partenaires et fournisseurs
  • Communiquer l'état des projets aux dirigeants
  • Recruter et retenir les talents en développement

Requirements summary:

  • Au moins 3 ans en gestion senior ou direction
  • Baccalauréat en génie ou informatique requis
  • Connaissance approfondie de l'infonuagique et des microservices
  • Maîtrise des méthodes agiles
  • Bonne connaissance des technologies front end et back end

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Source and dates

Employer career site / ATS feed · paradox

Employer posting date
2026-10-23
First seen by our source
2026-11-04
Source record updated
2026-11-04

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Job details

SeniorityDirector
DepartmentSoftware development
Experience3+ years
Management experience3+ years
Manages peopleYes
Hours per week40 (estimated)
Work settingOffice
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish, French
EducationBachelor’s degree (required), Master’s degree (preferred)
Fields of studyEngineering, Computer Science

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Job description

Loblaw Digital est l’équipe responsable de la construction et de l’exploitation des activités numériques pour le plus grand et le plus prospère détaillant au Canada. Nous créons des solutions de commerce électronique de pointe réactives, dont le site Cliquez et ramassez de Loblaws, qui offre une expérience de courses alimentaires en ligne novatrice. Nous avons également mis au point, et exploitons maintenant, le site primé JoeFresh.com, ainsi que l’application pour iPad et iPhone. Nous sommes établis dans le centre-ville de Toronto et fonctionnons comme une jeune entreprise, mais disposons des ressources d’une entreprise beaucoup plus importante. Nous sommes une équipe sympathique d’entrepreneurs en constante évolution qui travaille en collaboration en vue de transformer la façon dont les Canadiens magasinent.

Pourquoi ce role est-il 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’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.

What you'll do

As a technical leader, you will assist the team in building, improving, and maintaining a world class digital ecosystem. You will roll up your sleeves to lead a team of engineers and software development managers in designing, developing, integrating, and testing services and platforms.

You should have extensive experience designing and building microservices on the cloud, Web applications, excellent communication skills, and a drive to make a significant impact in the ways Canadians’ shop. Expect to take ownership of technical vision and strategy, to take the lead on key architectural decisions, to mentor a growing team, to hold high standards in operation excellence and production availability.

Acting as a member of the technology leadership team, you will ensure that the platform for our eCommerce solution scales to meet ambitious growth targets for the business while addressing the functional and non-functional requirements. You will lead and mentor a talented team, focusing on continuous improvement, engineering excellence, while running a high performing development organization. In addition to our internal team, you will also be accountable for managing our outsourced development partners across onshore and offshore teams.

· Lead and mentor a high performing team in a rapid development environment.

· Ensure consistent, and timely delivery of new digital experiences across multiple web interfaces while driving good application design, scalability, development velocity, predictability, and quality.

· Apply the right development approach – agile or blended – based on project and business needs and effectively coordinating the implementations across internal, partner and vendor teams.

· Communicate project status and issues in a concise and accurate manner to executives.

· Collaborate with multiple business and technical teams to define and deliver complex features.

· Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints

· Plan and manage multiple parallel projects

· Work with the product management team to continuously improve our product development methodologies.

· Recruit and retain top development talent

What you bring

· You have 3+ years of experience in a senior management or director level role, preferably in retail digital eCommerce business, and you’re looking for a new challenge.

· You’re always looking to support your team, to grow your next leaders both from a technical perspective, as well as communication skills.

· You’re a developer at heart. You’re passionate about writing good software, and you’re experienced in making wise tradeoffs.

· You love to get a group of talented engineers together to solve difficult problems. You wish you had more time to code, but you recognize that you now can have higher-leverage contributions for your team.

· You are always learning and growing. Not one to rest on your laurels, you actively seek out things outside your comfort zone.

· Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Computer Science required, advanced degree preferred.

· Excellent understanding of the cloud technology stack and microservices architecture.

· Excellent understanding of the agile principles and methodologies.

· Good understanding of both front end and back end technologies

· Strong interpersonal skills including ability to work in a cross-functional environment and communicate with influence at all levels of the organization.

· History of ability to driving clear action and ownership among large development teams.

· A true leader – someone who enables and inspires their team to do their best work and demonstrates a history of building high performance development teams

· Hands-on technologist who can dive deep and hold their own with senior developers building a scalable product.

· Demonstrated ability to harness the power of technology and people to accomplish big things.

· Strong sense of urgency and personal commitment.

Comment Réussir:

Chez Loblaw Digital, nous recherchons toujours des personnes formidables pour continuellement renforcer notre culture. Nous croyons que les gens formidables façonnent nos valeurs, sont authentiques, bâtissent la confiance et créent des liens.

Si cela vous ressemble et que vous êtes ouvert d’esprit, que vous avez une bonne attitude face aux changements et que vous aimez les défis d’un environnement de travail aux détails dynamiques, postulez aujourd’hui.

Type d'emploi:

Temps plein

Role:

Poste régulier

Loblaw Digital limitée considère que la diversité culturelle du Canada est une source de fierté nationale et un symbole de stabilité. Nous nous sommes donné comme priorité de refléter les diversités culturelles de notre pays dans les produits que nous vendons, les gens que nous embauchons et notre culture d’entreprise. Des mesures d’adaptation sont offertes sur demande pour les candidats et les collègues qui ont des handicaps.

En outre, nous croyons que la conformité aux lois consiste à faire ce qu'il faut. Le respect de la loi fait partie de notre Code de conduite; il renforce ce que nos clients et nos parties prenantes attendent de nous.

Hiring Range / Échelle salariale à l’embauche :$170,000.00 - $220,000.00 / 170.000,00$ - 220.000,00$ (per year / par an)A candidate’s experience and knowledge as well as the geographical region in which the position is located may be factored into the pay a candidate receives for this position. This posting is for an existing vacancy. The Company uses artificial intelligence for the purpose of screening, assessing and/or selecting applicants for this position. / L’expérience et les connaissances d’un candidat ainsi que la région géographique dans laquelle le poste est situé peuvent être prises en compte dans la rémunération qu’un candidat reçoit pour ce poste. Cette offre d’emploi concerne un poste vacant existant. L’entreprise utilise l’intelligence artificielle dans le but de filtrer, d’évaluer et/ou de sélectionner les candidats à ce poste.

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