Software Development Manager

Meet Benevity

Benevity is the way the world does good, providing companies (and their employees) with technology to take social action on the issues they care about. Through giving, volunteering, grantmaking, employee resource groups and micro-actions, we help most of the Fortune 100 brands build better cultures and use their power for good. We’re also one of the first B Corporations in Canada, meaning we’re as committed to purpose as we are to profits. We have people working all over the world, including Canada, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and more!

What you'll do :

Direct functional people leadership. Recruiting, performance management, team culture and engagement, budget and cost control

Maintains a high level of technical knowledge, especially deeply within the team’s domain, to accurately engage with the team and validate assumptions, provide guidance, and ensure the team is making sound technology decisions while balancing business and technical constraints

Accountable for timely delivery of the team's project commitments

Actively balances business and technology objectives when decision making

Ensures all members of the team are adhering to Benevity governance / controls / standards

Provides visibility into team's execution via performance measures and reporting (bi-weekly)

Aligns team activities with Benevity OKRs and clarifies the link between the work and the OKR as necessary

Understands current, unspoken, and future business context for the team and ensures resource allocation, skill development and cost decisions align with business needs

Coordinates prioritization and scheduling activities with product management on behalf of the team

Ensures that technical team leaders and the team are making decisions that reflect their need to consider documented or undocumented standards, costs, and architectural roadmap

Responsible for ensuring their teams commit the time to engineering-led innovation, ensuring that early projects get feedback, and ensuring that promising projects are continued during PI time to the point of cancellation or completion / delivery

Ensures that teams are correctly resourced and flags any resourcing issues to senior leadership. Ensures that short-term embedded roles such as Architecture and SRE have the right team member to transfer knowledge to

What you'll bring :

You have a successful track record as a software development manager working with cloud-based technologies

You have experience with AI development tooling and an AI-first mindset to your daily ways of working and leading

You love to build technology teams that deliver exceptional product experiences in high-growth companies

You thrive on developing people, building team culture and engagement, and direct functional people leadership

You have experience in end-to-end SaaS product development, at scale, in enterprise environments

You maintain a high level of technical knowledge, including at a code level, to accurately engage with the team and validate assumptions

You provide guidance and ensure the team is making sound technology decisions while balancing business and technical constraints

You lead with empathy and have a high degree of self-awareness

You help build business and client context for the team to foster a sense of team ownership

You are passionate, not pedantic, about development methodologies and are able to adapt and change approaches

You see opportunities in working with legacy code and optimizing existing systems

You take satisfaction in leaving code, processes, and people better than when you got there

You ensure you keep up to date with the latest technologies, and best practices, to ensure solutions continue to be innovative and robust

Discover your purpose at work

We’re not employees, we’re Benevity-ites. From all locations, backgrounds and walks of life, who deserve more …

Innovative work. Growth opportunities. Caring co-workers. And a chance to do work that fills us with a sense of purpose.

If the idea of working on tech that helps people do good in the world lights you up ... If you want a career where you’re valued for who you are and challenged to see who you can become …

It’s time to join Benevity. We’re so excited to meet you.

Where We Work

At Benevity, we embrace a flexible hybrid approach to where we work that empowers our people in a way that supports great work, strong relationships, and personal well-being. For those located near one of our offices, while there’s no set requirement for in-office time, we do value the moments when coming together in person helps us build connection and collaboration. Whether it’s for onboarding, project work, or a chance to align and bond as a team, we trust our people to make thoughtful decisions about when showing up in person matters most.

Join a company where DEIB isn’t a buzzword

Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are part of Benevity’s DNA. You’ll see the impact of our massive investment in DEIB daily — from our well-supported employee resources groups to the exceptional diversity on our leadership and tech teams.

We know that diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills and passions are what move our business and our people forward, so we're committed to creating a culture of belonging with equal opportunities for everyone to shine.

That starts with a fair and accessible hiring process. If you want to feel seen, heard and celebrated, you belong at Benevity.

Candidates with disabilities who may require accommodations throughout the hiring or assessment process are encouraged to reach out to accommodations@benevity.com.

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