Staff Developer

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, Sri Lanka and more!

Benevity is searching for Staff Developers to join us in taking the next step in our journey to “infuse a culture of goodness in the world” by enhancing and expanding our best in class global data platform and in building out our Skills Based Volunteering initiative. These roles, reporting to the Software Development Managers, play a crucial part in shaping the technical vision and implementation of our products. Our culture is driven by our core value of “we-are-we” and as a Group Product Manager you will work in an outcome-driven environment where collaboration with your design and engineering counterparts is paramount.

If you’re eager to make a difference and thrive in a collaborative setting, we invite you to join our team!

What you’ll do:

● Design and implement robust data pipelines and ETL processes to support efficient data extraction, transformation, and loading tasks, ensuring data quality and integrity

● Utilize analytic tools and techniques to derive actionable insights from large datasets, driving informed decision-making and enhancing product features

● Lead the technical vision for product development, deployment, and operations

● Serve as a primary consultant on design and development within a collaborative team

● Work closely with subject matter experts, Staff Developers, architects, and other teams to drive product evolution

● Proactively seek opportunities to tackle complex technical and business challenges to develop your problem-solving expertise and advance your career.

● Access Benevity's diverse products, teams, and advanced computing resources for continuous learning and growth

Requirements

What you’ll bring:
● 8 + years of full-stack development experience, coupled with a continual learning mindset

● Hands on experience with designing and implementing end to end ETL pipelines and data engineering solutions.

● Hands-on full stack experience with GCP cloud. AWS/Azure experience is considered an asset.

● Hands on experience with designing and implementing solutions with BigData technology stack.

● Experience with implementing data warehousing and analytics reporting solutions.

● Experience with implementing data governance and data quality tests.

● Development experience in the financial industry is an asset

● Proven experience in building high-performance web applications, APIs, and interfaces with a strong testing discipline

● Demonstrated willingness to navigate and understand cross-domain codeExpertise with Java, PHP, Drupal, Terraform, and/or AWS, is an asset

● The ability to connect designs to implementation with an API-first approach expertise with loosely coupled systems, and domain driven design

● Comfort with abstract problem-solving and ambiguous challenges

● Experience in pragmatically designing, building, and deploying performant scalable, highly available distributed systems and cloud-based architecture and automated release pipelines

● A commitment to code quality, maintainability, testability, and scalability

● Demonstrable experience working with legacy code and the ability to optimize existing systems

● A commitment to leaving code/processes/people better than when you got there and acting as a expert leader within a technical domain

● Outstanding communication skills with a knack for translating user needs into actionable plans

● The ability to mentor and lead junior engineers and experience with helping them develop their skills and leadership abilities (and a firm belief that everyone has something to learn and teach)
● A degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience

● You're passionate about companies using their resources to address social issues