Software Development Manager

at  Benevity

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

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.