Software Development Manager

Meet Benevity

The world’s coolest companies (and their employees) use Benevity’s 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!

We are hiring a Software Development Manager who is passionate about building exceptional teams and leading the development of innovative SaaS products at scale. You’ll play a key role in driving the success of our cloud-based solutions while fostering a collaborative, high-performing team culture. If you thrive on balancing technical and business objectives, love mentoring others, and enjoy solving complex challenges, this is the role for you!

What you’ll do:

• Direct functional people leadership by leading recruitment, performance management, team culture, engagement, and budget oversight for your team
• Maintain deep technical expertise to guide and validate team decisions, ensuring sound technology choices that balance business and technical needs
• Oversee and adapt the team’s execution methodology, while adhering to project controls or governance constraints
• Accountable for timely delivery of the team's project commitments
• Ensure alignment with Benevity’s standards, governance, and OKRs, providing visibility through regular performance reporting
• Understand 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:

• Proven experience leading cloud-based software development teams in high-growth environments
• Passion for developing people, building engaged teams, and providing functional leadership
• Strong background in SaaS product development at scale, with hands-on technical knowledge 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
• Ability to guide teams in making balanced technical decisions and adapting methodologies
• Empathy, self-awareness, and a commitment to fostering team ownership
• Enthusiasm for improving legacy systems and driving continuous innovation

Discover your purpose at work

We are not employees, we are 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 have developed a Community First approach that we design our people's experience around with goals to build a strong community and culture, achieve stellar execution of our business goals and social mandate, and ensure Benevity-ites thrive. For those who live within a reasonable commuting distance to an office, we can split our time working in the office and from home to optimize the opportunities of both, with the requirement that we spend at least 50% of the time in the office.

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 [email protected].