Technical Engineering Lead/senior Backend
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Why work with Compass Digital? We are a member of Compass Group North America the leading foodservice and support services company. We create remarkable customer experiences through the innovative design and development of technology products and services. Compass Digital began as an innovation startup and the team has since rapidly grown and now supports technology and innovation across all of North America. Compass digital is comprised of user experience designers, developers, data scientists, project managers, business analysts, marketers and technology implementation managers, all of whom look at the world from a human perspective to rethink what's possible in the areas of technology innovation and consumer engagement within the foodservice and hospitality industries. Join us.
Job Summary
What We Do
Our Compass Digital Core Product Engineering team builds food ordering apps, operator management and kitchen display systems, empowering hospitality guests, front and back of house operations. Our back-end services are shared along the guest's hospitality journey.
Join - Verify - Search - Order - Pay - Pick-up/Delivery - Enjoy.
As a senior back-end software engineer you will work in focus areas such as:
- decoupling where possible
- rewrite and refactor where necessary
- instill an observability-by-design mentality across the team
- improve the software security posture of our services
- help us implement standards, next-best practices for code quality and test coverage
- get our services ready for a 10x growth in transaction volume(order volume)
- critically question and professionally challenge our priorities and design decisions
- be a technical leader for your team
You will have the opportunity to use the latest and greatest cloud and open-source technology to guide and influence how we develop technology driven hospitality experiences for our customers and to provide self-service capabilities for non-technical groups.
What We Like To Use
TBD - Trunk Based Development, MONOREPO, AWS CDK plus our own CI/CD tool to effectively use the MONOREPO, Observability - T.E.M.P.L.E., Node.js migrating to Typescript, Serverless - NPM, Managed AWS Services, Feature flagging
Now, if you were to come on board as one of our Senior Backend Engineer-, we'd ask you to do the following for us:
- Be a customer and product engineering advocate
- Add your voice, skills and experiences to our back-end teams
- Lead, coach, mentor, collaborate, engage, document, be transparent, share, show and tell
- Embrace our journey and support our vision
- Help us grow and skill-up our product engineering practices
- Step back and think broadly - Step in and dive deep where needed
- Seek out opportunities to secure, stabilize, scale, observe, decouple, retire, refactor our back-end services
- Balance research, planning, experimentation and execution with critical thought, business priorities and technology debt
- Be an owner of your technology stack and support it actively with your team members (shared on-call responsibility)
Think you have what it takes to be our Senior Backend Engineer? We're committed to hiring the best talent for the role. Here's how we'll know you'll be successful in the role.
- You are experienced and helped build various types of back-end service architectures. You - are curious, can apply your critical thinking skills always, appreciate simplicity and can decompose complexity and a are continuous learner but also educators.
- You understand macro-services, micro-services and service monoliths.
- You add diversity of thought, background, experience, and skill
- You will add a new perspective and can play the devil's advocate
- (Be) Yourself - We love folks with an opinion that is loosely held
- Curiosity, willingness to learn, grow, contribute, share, teach
- We are not looking for a perfect fit, but we are looking for someone with experience
- Help us evolve our approach to observability
- You thrive in a unique, collaborative, high energy environment, and actively build trust through accountability, integrity, and respect for people's ideas and time
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 PeopleHub@compass-canada.com for further information.