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Dayforce is seeking a Senior Software Developer to join the Dayforce Platform Extensibility team and help evolve the Workflow platform for a multi-tenant SaaS service used globally. You will build scalable backend services, extensible APIs, and AI-enabled orchestration capabilities, while mentoring teammates and raising engineering standards.
The role emphasizes distributed systems, platform architecture, and modern development practices in a full-stack, backend-focused environment.
Qualifications
- Hands-on experience building or prototyping AI-enabled applications, agents, or orchestration workflows using LLMs and modern AI frameworks.
- Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools to boost developer productivity and quality.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve core capabilities within the Dayforce Workflow platform.
- Contribute to AI-enabled orchestration and intelligent automation initiatives.
- Design and build scalable backend services, extensible APIs, and orchestration capabilities.
- Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of high-volume workflow systems.
- Drive technical design, engineering standards, and operational excellence.
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Job description
Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.
Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce.
Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally.
Help modernize and scale the workflow platform behind Dayforce.
We’re looking for a Senior Software Developer to join the Dayforce Platform Extensibility team and help evolve one of the most critical systems in Dayforce: Workflow. Our mission is to build scalable, extensible platform capabilities that reduce duplication and enable teams to move faster.
At the heart of what we build is the Dayforce Workflow platform—a scalable, rule-based workflow orchestration engine powering employee lifecycle processes across a multi-tenant SaaS platform used by millions globally.
We’re evolving Workflow into a reusable platform service with extensible APIs that support workflow capabilities across multiple Dayforce domains. As part of that evolution, we’re also investing in AI-enabled orchestration and intelligent automation experiences integrated directly into the platform.
This is a platform engineering role focused on solving complex challenges at enterprise scale—evolving foundational systems, building extensible platform capabilities, and shaping the future of workflow orchestration across Dayforce.
This is a full-stack role with a strong backend focus, where the most impactful work involves distributed systems, platform architecture, scalability, and backend engineering.
- Own and evolve core capabilities within the Dayforce Workflow platform.
- Contribute to AI-enabled orchestration and intelligent automation initiatives, leveraging AI as a force multiplier to evolve workflow capabilities and developer productivity across Dayforce.
- Design and build scalable backend services, extensible APIs, and orchestration capabilities.
- Improve the scalability, reliability, and performance of high-volume workflow systems.
- Drive technical design, engineering standards, and operational excellence through modern development practices, observability, maintainability, and platform-focused architecture.
- Mentor teammates, contribute to technical leadership, and help raise the engineering bar across the team.
- Hands‑on experience building or prototyping AI‑enabled applications, agents, or orchestration workflows using LLMs and modern AI frameworks.
- Experience using AI‑assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent as part of day‑to‑day development workflows and as a practical force multiplier for teams.
- Strong experience building and maintaining production‑grade enterprise applications with C#/.NET.
- Experience designing scalable backend services, extensible APIs, and reusable platform capabilities.
- Strong SQL Server expertise, including performance tuning, query optimization, concurrency, and troubleshooting at scale.
- Experience building distributed, high‑volume systems with a focus on scalability, reliability, and performance.
- Practical experience with Azure and modern cloud development patterns.
- Ability to communicate with clarity across all levels—from technical design discussions with engineers to translating platform strategy and trade‑offs for leadership.
- Strong problem‑solving and debugging skills across backend systems, distributed services, and platform infrastructure.
- Experience with modern development practices, CI/CD workflows, observability, structured logging, and operational reliability.
- Strong engineering judgment—balancing scalability, maintainability, platform evolution, and pragmatic delivery.
- Experience building or evolving workflow orchestration platforms or similar enterprise platform capabilities.
- Experience developing reusable platform services and extensible APIs that support multiple product domains.
- Experience applying AI‑enabled orchestration or intelligent automation within enterprise software.
- Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineers while remaining hands‑on with development.
Dayforce is fueled by the diversity of our talented employees. We are an equal opportunity employer and consider and embrace ALL individuals and what makes them unique. We believe our employees should be happy and healthy, with peace of mind and a sense of fulfillment.
We encourage individuals to apply based on their passions.
- Dayforce employees and their families are eligible to participate in the following benefits programs: medical, dental, vison, and life insurance.
- Dayforce employees are also eligible to participate in a 401k plan (plus match) and a Global Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Employees also receive unlimited Time Away FromWork (in lieu of accrued vacation time), 10 paid US holidays, up to 80 hours of paid sick time and 17 weeks of paid parental leave, subject to the terms of the applicable policy or program.
With a commitment to community impact, including volunteer days and our charity, Dayforce Cares we provide opportunities for you to thrive both in your career and personal life. Our focus is not just on your job but on supporting you to be the best version of yourself.
Please note that the salary range mentioned in this job description should serve simply as a guide. The final compensation offered may vary based on a variety of factors, including bonuses and/or incentives, or a candidate’s experience, skills, budget and location. Our company is committed to providing a fair, equitable, and competitive package that reflects the value an individual brings to the organization.
Beware of fraudulent recruiting. Legitimate Dayforce contacts will use an @dayforce.com email address. We do not request money, checks, equipment orders, or sensitive personal data during the recruitment process. If you have been asked for any of the above, or believe you have been contacted by someone posing as a Dayforce employee, please refer to our fraudulent recruiting statement found here: https://www.dayforce.com/be-aware-of-recruiting-fraud
Dayforce actively monitors all job applications to ensure authenticity. Submissions determined to be fraudulent or misleading will be declined from the recruitment process
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