Software Development Manager

Responsibilities

• Lead teams in the AI-DLC process to deliver software solutions at pace
• Own team throughput within the AI-DLC, measured across initiative, bolt, and PR-level cycle time and quality metrics
• Ensure initiatives enter inception with high quality bolt-ready artifacts
• Facilitate Mob Elaboration and Mob Construction so they produce results, aligned product and engineering intent from inception and quality code shipped to production from Construction
• Maintain "human in the loop, always" as an engineering discipline. Ensuring developers understand and can defend the code AI generates and PR processes ensure quality outcomes.
• Actively manage the bolt / BAU (business as usual) balance within the team. Protecting team focus while ensuring key BAU is completed.
• Build a team culture of delivery of high quality outputs at pace. A team that understands when to challenge AI output and when to ship.
• Aligns team activities with Benevity Scorecard and clarify the link between the work and the Scorecard/Playbook as necessary
• Direct functional people leadership: Recruiting, performance management, team culture and engagement, budget and cost control
• Accountable for timely delivery of the team's work commitments
• Actively balances business, engineering and architectural objectives when decision making
• Ensures all members of the team are adhering to Benevity governance, controls and standards
• Provides visibility into team's execution via performance measures and reporting
• Understands current, unspoken, and future business context for the team and ensures resource allocation, skill development and cost decisions align with business needs
• Coordinates initiative sequencing and backlog readiness with product management, ensuring the team is always pulling work that is ready for bolt or BAU.
• 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
• Fosters a culture of continuous innovation within the team's day-to-day work, encouraging engineers to identify and close gaps in the business or processes; ensures the team makes use of dedicated innovation time to pursue and complete ideas that wouldn't otherwise surface through normal delivery.
• Ensures that teams are correctly resourced and flags any resourcing issues to senior leadership.

Requirements

• Experience working in Agentic software development
• You actively use AI to augment your own leadership practice, automating routine management tasks to create space to focus on the work that requires human judgment
• 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 maintain a high level of technical knowledge, including at a code level, and bring hands-on experie

Additional Information

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! Benevity is on a dynamic growth trajectory, where embracing change is part of our DNA. We're on the lookout for a talented Software Development Manager who thrives in a fast-paced environment and values collaboration in a diverse and inclusive team setting. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in software development including expertise leading teams in AI-led development. You'll have strong experience working in cloud infrastructure. You will contribute to the building of financial services and business layer capabilities that empower companies (and their employees) to make a trusted positive impact across the globe. Your contributions will involve working closely with technical leaders, product leaders and stakeholders across various teams to deliver value that exceeds client expectations. You will foster a culture of high performance.

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