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!

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 the team’s execution methodology; full authority to adapt and change methodology while adhering to project controls or governance 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 (weekly, monthly)
• 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 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 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].