Job Description
Dayforce, a global leader in Human Capital Management (HCM) with headquarters in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, operates across North America, EMEA, and APJ regions. Our Cloud HCM platform, recognized for its unified database and continuous calculation engine, enhances efficiency, productivity, and compliance for global workforces. We are committed to "Making Work Life Better™" for employees, customers, and partners worldwide.
As an Intern at Dayforce, you’ll gain real-world experience with meaningful responsibilities, access to development programs, and the chance to collaborate globally, bringing new ideas and optimizing processes across multiple business units.
Job Title: Product Engineer Intern
Location: This position will operate on a hybrid schedule, with the expectation that the successful candidate will work from our Toronto office three days per week.
Duration: Fall 2026 – 4 or 8 Months (September 2026 – December 2026) OR (September 2026 – April 2027)
Availability: *Full-time availability of 37.5 – 40 hours weekly is required to be eligible for this opportunity.
Benefits for Students:
• Experience working for one of the fastest growing Human Capital Management technology companies in the world Access to Dayforce’s development programs and resources
• Ability to work with as well as create relationships with members across the globe
• Autonomy to bring forth new ideas and optimize existing structures within the organization
• Meaningful responsibilities, enabling you to obtain ‘real-world’ experience
• Dynamic hands-on exposure to multiple business-units and stakeholders across Dayforce
About the opportunity:
We are looking for a Product Engineer Intern with an interest in visualizing and optimizing large-scale data with an amazing UI/UX. The successful candidate will collaborate on the design, development, and implementation of our proprietary data visualization platform used by large enterprise customers to gain real-time insights into complex organizational structures.
This role combines hands-on AI-driven software engineering with close collaboration with cross-functional teams to deliver secure, high-performance, scalable solutions for C-level stakeholders.
What you’ll get to do:
Requirements & System Design
• Collect, analyze, and document user and business requirements for complex software and data visualization solutions.
• Develop and refine detailed technical requirements and specifications.
• Research, evaluate, and synthesize technical information to design, develop, and test computer-based systems and applications.
Data & System Architecture
• Develop data, process, and network models to optimize system architecture and evaluate the performance, scalability, and reliability of designs.
• Implement architectural designs and redesigns for large-scale organizational data processing and visualization systems, including identifying bottlenecks and applying advanced optimization techniques.
• Plan, design, and coordinate the development, integration, deployment, and operation of systems and applications.
Implementation, Testing & Maintenance
• Develop modern cross-platform applications (web and/or mobile) using frameworks and tools (e.g., Vuejs, Nodejs, and design systems).
• Assess, test, and troubleshoot software systems and applications, including performance tuning of big data and visualization workloads.
• Design, architect, and implement a multi-level caching system for large enterprise organizations, graph-based data structures.
• Design, architect, and implement Enterprise Resource Planning features for position and personnel resource planning.
• Design, architect, and implement Enterprise Resource Planning features for job architectures.
• Document system designs, technical specifications, and maintenance procedures.
• Implement upgrades, patches, and improvements to operating environments and application software, ensuring high availability and resilience.
• Develop and maintain procedures for monitoring, incident response, and ongoing system maintenance.
• The system must work for large enterprises with hundreds of thousands of employees.
Collaboration
• Coordinate with other software engineers and information systems professionals in the development of software and integrated information systems.
• Work on cross-functional collaboration between engineering, data, and product teams to deliver complex projects on time and within quality standards.
• Provide technical mentorship, code review, and guidance on best practices in software architecture, performance optimization, and data visualization.
Security & Compliance
• Design and implement features and architectures that enhance the security, integrity, and confidentiality of sensitive organizational data.
• Identify and mitigate potential vulnerabilities, ensuring compliance with relevant data protection and privacy regulations.
• Architect and implement SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 compliant systems.
Skills and experience we value:
• Enrolled in a Bachelor's degree (or higher) program in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Data visualization for large or complex datasets
• Performance optimization of large-scale or big data systems
• Experience designing, developing, and deploying computer-based systems and applications in a production environment.
• Proficiency in software design and architecture, including modeling data, processes, and system interactions.
• Proficiency in AI-driven software development. Candidate must demonstrate the utilization of AI in software development.
• Experience with modern web application development, such as: JavaScript's modern front-end frameworks (e.g., Vue.js, React, or similar) - Node.js - Postgres DB, and Python
• Component-based UI development and design systems (e.g., Tailwind CSS or similar).
• Hands-on experience with data visualization frameworks or libraries and techniques for rendering and optimizing large datasets (e.g., virtualization, occlusion culling, or similar performance techniques).
• Experience with performance optimization and scalability for high-traffic, data-intensive systems.
• Familiarity with distributed systems, cloud-based environments, and integration with back-end services or data pipelines.
• Strong understanding of software testing, troubleshooting, and debugging in complex systems.
• Strong understanding of graph-based data structures.
• Strong understanding of different layers of caching systems and context-aware prompt engineering.
What’s in it for you
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 encourages personal and professional growth. We offer excellent time away from work programs, comprehensive wellness initiatives and recognition through competitive pay and benefits.
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.
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Dayforce actively monitors all job applications to ensure authenticity. Submissions determined to be fraudulent or misleading will be declined from the recruitment process.
Artificial intelligence may be used in the screening, assessment, or selection of applicants for this position.
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