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’re looking for a Software Development Manager to join our Product & Engineering team. In this role, you'll contribute to the development and enhancement of our innovative platform.

What you’ll do:

• Provide direct leadership to functional teams, overseeing recruiting, performance management, team culture, and engagement
• Maintain a deep technical expertise within the team’s domain to validate assumptions, guide decision-making, and ensure robust technology solutions that balance business and technical constraints
• Accountable for the team’s execution methodology, with authority to adapt and optimize processes while adhering to project controls and governance frameworks
• Ensure timely delivery of the team's project commitments, balancing business objectives with technological advancements
• Uphold Benevity’s governance, controls, and standards across all team activities.
• Provide transparent visibility into team performance through regular reporting and performance metrics (weekly, monthly)
• Align team initiatives with Benevity’s Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), clarifying the strategic linkages between projects and organizational goals
• Understand and integrate current, implicit, and future business contexts into resource allocation, skill development, and cost management decisions
• Collaborate closely with product management to prioritize and schedule activities that align with strategic objectives
• Responsible for ensuring their teams commit time to engineering-led innovation, ensuring early projects receive feedback, and fostering continuation or closure during PI cycles
• Ensure teams are appropriately resourced and escalate any resource issues to senior leadership. Facilitate knowledge transfer in short-term embedded roles such as Architecture and SRE

What you’ll bring:

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

The diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills and passions of our people make it possible for us to keep innovating as the market leader in our space.

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 Black Employee Network making space for us to have difficult conversations to our Pride events and the exceptional diversity on our leadership and tech teams.

We strive to build a strong culture of belonging so that every Benevity-ite feels included and can thrive as their authentic selves — in a place where everyone has an equitable opportunity to shine!