Software Development Manager

Benevity•Calgary, AB

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Benevity is seeking 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 and strong experience working in cloud infrastructure. This role will contribute to building financial services and business layer capabilities that empower companies and their employees to make a trusted positive impact globally. The position involves working closely with technical and product leaders, as well as stakeholders across various teams, to deliver value that exceeds client expectations and fosters a culture of high performance.

Requirements

Experience working in Agentic software development.
Actively use AI to augment leadership practice, automating routine management tasks to create space to focus on work requiring human judgment.
Successful track record as a software development manager working with cloud-based technologies.
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, and bring hands-on experience with AI-led development to accurately engage with the team, validate assumptions, and drive sound engineering decisions.
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 context for the team to foster a sense of team excellence.
Passionate, not pedantic, about development methodologies and able to adapt and change approaches.
Take satisfaction in leaving code, processes, and people better than when you got there.
Keep up to date with the latest technologies, processes, and best practices, to ensure solutions continue to be innovative and robust.

Nice To Haves

Thrive on developing people, building team culture and engagement, and direct functional people leadership.
Love to build technology teams that deliver exceptional product experiences in high-growth companies.

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 to 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 AI-generated code 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, where the team understands when to challenge AI output and when to ship.
Align 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.
Maintain a high level of technical knowledge across domains, with the ability to apply AI effectively across the software development lifecycle to drive better engineering and delivery outcomes.
Engage with the team to validate assumptions, provide guidance, and ensure the team is making sound technology decisions while balancing business, engineering, and architectural constraints.
Accountable for timely delivery of the team's work commitments.
Actively balance business, engineering, and architectural objectives when decision making.
Ensure all members of the team are adhering to Benevity governance, controls, and standards.
Provide visibility into team's execution via performance measures and reporting.
Understand current, unspoken, and future business context for the team and ensure resource allocation, skill development, and cost decisions align with business needs.
Coordinate initiative sequencing and backlog readiness with product management, ensuring the team is always pulling work that is ready for bolt or BAU.
Ensure that technical team leaders and the team are making decisions that reflect their need to consider documented or undocumented standards, costs, and architectural roadmap.
Foster 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; ensure the team makes use of dedicated innovation time to pursue and complete ideas that wouldn't otherwise surface through normal delivery.
Ensure that teams are correctly resourced and flag any resourcing issues to senior leadership.