Senior Software Developer (AI Assistant & AI Agents)

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.

This posting represents an ongoing opportunity within our organization. While there may not be an active vacancy at this time, we encourage interested candidates to apply. Applications will be reviewed periodically and retained for future openings.

About The Opportunity We are looking for a Senior Software Developer to join the team that is building search, AI Assistant, and AI agents capabilities into our Dayforce product. The Sr.

Developer has an opportunity to join a team of strong developers and work on a high visibility and high impact product - you will change the way millions of customers globally interact with our product on a day-to-day basis across 150+ countries. The ideal candidate has strong technical skills and a desire to keep up to date with advances in big data technologies.

Your impact will be evident through your effective participation in the entire lifecycle of our software including design, analysis, prototyping, development, testing and support of our products. You will work closely and collaborate with clients, prospects, implementation partners, and Dayforce personnel to envision and deliver the required functionality.

What You’ll Get To Do

• Contribute to the design and implementation of highly scalable and available innovative solutions that include building a new search service, federating data, developing & consuming APIs, and implementing a search user interface
• Participate in critical architecture design, advise and influence on strategic technical directions in continuous improvement of the search service
• Recommend new technologies to ensure solution scalability, maintainability and quality
• Automate release processes for all integrations & support deployed solutions
• Maintain integrations and tooling (e.g., bugfixes, enhancements, CI/CD updates)
• Scrupulously adhere to industry best practices
• Develop your technical skills through continuous learning
• Analyze, design, prototype, program, test and support– the complete software lifecycle in your hands!
• Participate in Product discussions to advise on and influence the Product Roadmap
• Contribute to the engineering process and culture
• If you are a technology enthusiast, have passion for creating great software, want to see your creation utilized by millions of people all over the world, and possess one or more of the following qualifications, we want to talk to you!

Skills And Experience We Value

• Experienced full stack developer who possesses a strong understanding of the challenges in implementing a search service and experience
• 4+ years of Python and C#
• 3+ years of experience in building and leading development of complex SaaS and/or cloud-based applications
• 2+ years of experience in ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana) stack
• 2+ year experience with Azure cloud technologies
• Demonstrated understanding data structure, algorithms, design patterns
• History of developing and participating in the design of web services, microservices, or SOA
• Strong understanding of advanced programming constructs such as multi-threaded programming, dependency injection, LINQ, advanced SQL, object relational mapping
• Technical fluency; comfort discussing or diving deep on technology concepts, options and new opportunities with technical team members
• Driven by delivering customer value and impact
• Desire to work and experiment with new technologies with a proven track record of quickly learning new technologies
• Ability to debug, analyze and profile performance in production environments
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

What Would Make You Stand Out

• Experience integrating Kafka with other systems like databases, microservices, and stream processing tools (e.g. Kafka Streams, Streamiz.Kakfka.Net)
• Experience in monitoring and tuning Elasticsearch clusters for performance and reliability
• Experience with infrastructure design and deployment utilizing Azure CloudPaaS cloud offerings for the implementation of data pipelines (Power BI, Azure SQL, Function/Logic Apps