Benevity - Software Development Manager

• 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

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!

• 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