Lead Engineer (Software Engineering)

What You’ll Be Doing

Partnering with Engineering and Product leads to design services that are robust, decoupled, and ready for change.

Acting as a Technical Lead within the product team—guiding design discussions, reviewing code, and ensuring engineering best practices are upheld.

Contributing directly to the codebase—building critical features, tackling complex problems, and modeling strong engineering discipline.

Mentoring engineers through regular feedback, code reviews, and technical coaching—raising the bar across the team.

Driving consistency in patterns, testing strategies, and development workflows within the team.

Supporting delivery by breaking down complex initiatives, identifying risks early, and helping the team execute with clarity and focus.

What You Bring To The Table

You’re opinionated abut flexible in your approach—context always trumps dogma.

You have hands‑on experience improving, crafting, articulating, and coding iterative improvements to existing systems.

You work smart—leveraging the latest tools to their full potential and extending them where they add true value and efficiency.

You lead by example in the codebase—writing production‑quality code, conducting thorough code reviews, and setting a high bar for craftsmanship.

You’re passionate about mentoring engineers, helping them grow through feedback, pairing, and shared ownership of solutions.

You value simplicity, readability, and maintainability over unnecessary complexity.

You know how to align technical decisions with product outcomes, delivery timelines, and team capacity.

Your Background Includes

8+ years of software engineering experience, with at least 2 years in an Technical Lead or Senior Engineer role.

Deep hands‑on experience designing APIs, integrating systems, and building for scale in cloud‑native environments.

A track record of driving architectural decisions across multiple services and squads.

Proficiency in system decomposition, event‑driven design, and modern development practices like CI/CD, containerization, and observability.

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Experience That’s a Plus

Hands‑on experience with NestJS, TypeScript, Postgres, DynamoDB, AWS, and EventBridge.

Familiarity with multi‑tenant systems or product‑as‑a‑service patterns.

Exposure to hospitality, foodservice, or commerce‑related platforms.

Experience contributing to Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), RFCs, or design standards across teams.

Position Details

Position Title: Team Lead, Software Engineering

Salary: 130,000.00 – 160,000.00

Perks: 4 Weeks Vacation, Bonus Eligibility, RRSP Match and more!

Hybrid: 3 Days in Office

Location: Toronto – 72 Fraser Avenue, Toronto ON

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Benefits

Join an award‑winning culture. We have been recognized for being a Great Place to Work, in addition to being selected as a FORTUNE Global 500 Company, Best Workplaces Retail & Hospitality, and FORTUNE World’s Most Admired Companies.

The opportunities with us are endless. As the world’s largest food and support services company, we offer an extensive range of learning and career opportunities for all our associates.

Health & Safety. The health and safety of our associates, clients and guests has always been our top priority. We have the right processes in place to ensure our teams have the support they need to stay safe, while helping to keep our guests safe.

Health Benefits. For our eligible associates, we offer comprehensive health, vision, and dental care coverage.

A Focus on Mental Health and Wellness. Our Mental Health and Well‑Being initiative was created to share credible resources with our associates and the communities we serve on a variety of topics, including mental, physical, spiritual, and financial wellbeing. We also have an Employment Assistance Program which provides our associates with access to 24/7 support, resources, and information.

We are as diverse as our guests. We believe diverse and inclusive environments support innovation and collaboration, and benefit our associates, clients, and customers. We are committed to Listen, Learn, and Act and our Diversity Inclusion Action Councils (DIAC) are associate led groups that seek to foster inclusion through cultural awareness, engagement and appreciation of diversity. We are Stronger, Together!

In accordance with provincial legislation and our commitment to transparent hiring practices, the compensation range for this position is provided. Final compensation will be determined based on qualifications, experience, and internal equity. Canadian work experience is not required. Please note that artificial intelligence tools are utilized in the applicant screening process.

Compass Group Canada is committed to nurturing a diverse workforce representative of the communities within which we operate. We encourage and are pleased to consider all qualified candidates, without regard to race, colour, citizenship, religion, sex, marital / family status, sexual orientation, gender identity, aboriginal status, age, disability or persons who may require an accommodation, to apply.

For accommodation requests during the hiring process, please contact ukg.recruitment@compass-canada.com for further information.

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