Software Development Manager

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:

● 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

Requirements

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 have a proven experience in the MERN stack with in-depth knowledge of MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node.js

● You have a solid understanding of Java, SpringBoot, RESTful API design and integration using microservices, event-driven architecture

● You have a knowledge of database design and management, including both SQL and NoSQL databases.

● You have a strategic thinking mind-set with technical expertise, use data for strategic decision making

● 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