Senior Software Developer – AI Platform Engineering

Dayforce is a global human capital management company headquartered in Toronto and Minneapolis. They are seeking a Senior Software Developer to design and build core services for a next-generation Agent Platform that powers intelligent automation and AI-driven workflows.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement production-grade backend services supporting AI-driven workflows
• Contribute to execution orchestration, task routing, and tool invocation systems
• Develop APIs and service contracts that are stable, extensible, and well-documented
• Implement robust authentication, authorization, and secure execution patterns
• Build systems with strong logging, metrics, and tracing from the ground up
• Improve system resilience, fault tolerance, and performance
• Participate in production readiness, monitoring, and incident response processes
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams integrating with the Agent Platform
• Provide technical guidance on best practices and integration patterns
• Contribute to reusable infrastructure components and developer tooling

Requirements:

• 5–8+ years of experience building and operating distributed systems in production
• Experience integrating large language models (LLMs) into applications or services
• Strong backend development experience (TypeScript, C#, Go or similar)
• Experience designing RESTful or event-driven APIs
• Hands-on experience with containerized infrastructure (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Strong understanding of secure service design and authentication patterns
• Experience implementing observability practices (logging, metrics, tracing)
• Demonstrated ownership of features from design through production
• Exposure to workflow orchestration, event-driven systems, or asynchronous processing
• Familiarity with worker-based architectures or execution isolation models
• Experience contributing to internal platforms or shared infrastructure services
• Experience optimizing system performance and debugging distributed systems
• Experience working with globally distributed teams