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Senior Engineer – AI & Data Extraction
Req ID: 1468799
Category: Digital – SALARY
Brand: Compass Digital
Location: Toronto, ON
Posting Date: October 1, 2025
Category: Digital – SALARY
Brand: Compass Digital
Location: Toronto, ON
Posting Date: October 1, 2025
Who Are We?
We are CDAI—the data and artificial intelligence engine of Compass Group North America. We design and deliver custom, in-house solutions tailored to the unique complexities of food service and hospitality. Our work is grounded in strong data foundations, layered with AI to enhance forecasting, streamline operations, and enable better, faster decision-making across Compass Group. With deep integration into the business and a commitment to white-glove service, CDAI empowers associates, clients, and customers through innovative, future-forward technologies.
What’s in it for you?
- 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. just now is our Mental Health and Well-Being initiative that 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. Visit our Stronger Together Compass website at www.strongertogethercompass.com. 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!
We are CDAI—the data and artificial intelligence engine of Compass Group North America. We design and deliver custom, in-house solutions tailored to the unique complexities of food service and hospitality. Our work is grounded in strong data foundations, layered with AI to enhance forecasting, streamline operations, and enable better, faster decision-making across Compass Group. With deep integration into the business and a commitment to white-glove service, CDAI empowers associates, clients, and customers through innovative, future-forward technologies.
Job Summary
Job Summary We are looking for a skilled and motivated Senior Engineer to join our forward-thinking team. The ideal candidate is passionate about building cutting-edge AI solutions, has a strong technical foundation, and excels in collaborative environments. As an Senior Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining advanced data products and AI-powered applications. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams—including Data Scientists, Analytics Engineers, Front-End Developers, and ML Engineers—to deliver scalable and impactful solutions.
Now, if you were to come on board as our Senior Engineer, we’d ask you to do the following:
- Design and implement scalable, fault-tolerant systems capable for crawl, scrape, extract, and normalize data from diverse web sources at massive scale.
- Build robust pipelines to handle structured and semi-structured data seamlessly.
- Analyze and fine-tune crawling strategies to maximize data coverage, freshness, and quality.
- Conduct research to stay ahead of the curve in large-scale web acquisition and processing techniques.
- Take ownership of end-to-end engineering projects in data acquisition, including web crawling, data ingestion, and search.
- Continuously improve reliability, observability, and performance of data systems and tooling over time.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to prioritize crawling targets that align with key business needs.
Think you have what it takes to be our Senior Engineer? Here’s how we’ll know:
- 3+ years of industry experience working on large-scale, complex web scraping projects.
- Strong background as a backend or full-stack software engineer.
- Deep understanding of how to crawl the internet at scale.
- Strong programming skills, especially in Python and Go.
Bonus Points If You Have:
Expertise in internet-scale technologies such as DNS, networking, CDNs, WAFs, CAPTCHAs, proxies, and reverse proxies.
Experience with event-driven architectures.
Experience building observability and monitoring tools that support both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
Exposure to large language models (LLMs) and their applications.
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