Software Developer Lead

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.

About the Opportunity

The Test Platform team builds and operates a large-scale, event-driven execution engine that runs quality validation across all of Product and Technology. Our distributed systems orchestrate huge volumes of test and validation work, and we build the tooling, frameworks, and AI capabilities that development teams rely on every day.

As a Lead Developer, you'll own core parts of this platform, from the distributed execution engine and messaging backbone through the AI tooling built on top of it. You'll set technical direction, drive architecture, and help teams across the organization build quality into what they ship.

We run a cloud-native, event-driven execution engine that schedules and runs hundreds of thousands of workloads across a distributed, containerized platform. It runs on Kubernetes, relies on asynchronous messaging and event streaming, and scales horizontally across enterprise SaaS workloads. Think high throughput, fault tolerance, deep observability, and elastic orchestration, with an AI layer on top that makes the platform smarter over time.

What You'll Get to Do

Platform and Distributed Systems Engineering

• Design, build, and run the event-driven execution engine that orchestrates test and validation workloads across a Kubernetes-based platform.
• Architect for throughput, resiliency, and elasticity using asynchronous messaging, event