Staff iOS Developer

Loblaw Digital; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital retail company in Toronto is searching for a Staff iOS Developer to enhance their mobile applications. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience in iOS development, particularly with Swift and UIKit, and will play a critical role in driving product strategies and mentoring other developers. Join a collaborative team focused on innovative solutions in the eCommerce space.

Benefits

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional iOS development experience.
• Experience with large-scale modular apps.
• Ability to lead cross-team initiatives.
• Strong understanding of performance metrics.
• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical strategy for iOS app areas.
• Lead initiatives impacting multiple surfaces.
• Mentor developers and enhance code quality.
• Ensure app performance and scalability.
• Collaborate to translate roadmap into solutions.

Skills

iOS development

Swift

UIKit

MVVM

VIPER

Clean Architecture

Performance instrumentation

Debugging tools

Collaboration skills

Tools

Instruments

Firebase Performance

Crashlytics

Snowplow

OTEL

Job description

Overview

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.

Staff iOS Developer to drive product excellence and architectural cohesion across a suite of mission-critical customer-facing mobile experiences. This role is ideal for a technical leader who thrives in complex ecosystems and can balance platform-level vision with hands-on impact. You will be a trusted partner across engineering, product, design, and platform domains, helping shape both near-term delivery and long-term technical direction.

What You'll Do

• Own the technical strategy and implementation for high-impact areas of the iOS app, including but not limited to Homepage, PDP (Product Detail Page), Browse, and shared Core App infrastructure.
• Define and evolve platform architecture, ensuring consistency, modularity, and reusability across teams and surfaces.
• Champion and guide the adoption of Server-Driven UI (SDUI) patterns, including performance tuning, dynamic page loading strategies, and headless component rendering.
• Lead cross-cutting initiatives that impact multiple surfaces, such as shared navigation, analytics instrumentation (Snowplow, OTEL), deep linking, and personalization frameworks.
• Mentor and support developers across squads, raising the bar for code quality, debugging practices, and technical decision-making.
• Drive technical alignment across mobile and platform teams, particularly in initiatives that require integration with BFF services, CMS configurations, and component libraries.
• Ensure app performance and scalability goals are met, including cold-start optimization, component hydration, and A / B testing support at scale.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to translate roadmap objectives into scalable engineering solutions, balancing delivery speed with long-term maintainability.
• Contribute to the evolution of developer tooling, CI / CD pipelines, and monitoring standards that support sustainable engineering velocity.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional iOS development experience with a strong grasp of Swift, UIKit, and architectural patterns such as MVVM, VIPER, or Clean Architecture.
• Deep experience building and maintaining large-scale modular apps and shared component systems.
• Proven track record of leading cross-team initiatives or platform modernization efforts (e.g., SDUI, core navigation, design systems).
• Fluency in performance instrumentation and debugging tools (e.g., Instruments, Firebase Performance, Crashlytics).
• Experience implementing or evolving dynamic and server-driven UI systems, including content prefetching, lazy loading, and experimentation frameworks.
• Strong understanding of BFF integrations, analytics pipelines, and personalization frameworks and how they interact with the app lifecycle.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to influence without authority across product, design, and engineering.
• Experience guiding and mentoring senior developers and shaping engineering culture and practices.
• Familiarity with observability platforms (e.g., Snowplow, OTEL) and how to apply them to user experience metrics like Perfect Experience (PE) tracking.
• Bonus: Experience working in retail, e-commerce, or multi-surface platform environments.

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 Details

• 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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