Software Development Manager

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Benevity

Compensation

$144,119 - $194,119/year

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Hybrid

Posted April 17, 2026

Job Description

Meet Benevity

Benevity is the way the world does good, providing companies (and their employees) with 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
Work directly with Product Managers and Senior Staff Developers to ensure a healthy and coherent backlog is available for your teams
Champion scrum ceremonies and ensure the highest velocity and quality deliverables of the team
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 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 (bi-weekly)
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 are making decisions that reflect their need to consider documented or undocumented standards, costs, and architectural roadmap

What you'll bring:

Successful track record as a software development manager working with cloud-based technologies
Experience with AI development tooling and an AI-first mindset to your daily ways of working and leading
Love to build technology teams that deliver exceptional product experiences in high-growth companies
Thrive on developing people, building team culture and engagement, and direct functional people leadership
Experience in end-to-end SaaS product development, at scale, in enterprise environments
Maintain a high level of technical knowledge, including at a code level, 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
Lead with empathy and have a high degree of self-awareness
Help build business and client context for the team to foster a sense of team ownership
Passionate, not pedantic, about development methodologies and are able to adapt and change approaches
See opportunities in working with legacy code and optimizing existing systems
Take satisfaction in leaving code, processes, and people better than when you got there
Ensure you keep up to date with the latest technologies, and best practices, to ensure solutions continue to be innovative and robust