Role overview

Benevity is a social impact technology company that enables organizations and their employees to take action on causes they care about through giving, volunteering, grantmaking and volunteering programs. As a Software Development Manager in Calgary, you will lead multiple engineering teams building cloud-based solutions that help Fortune 100 companies create positive global impact while strengthening their organizational culture.

Key responsibilities

Lead multiple engineering teams through the AI-driven development lifecycle, promoting AI-forward approaches to deliver software solutions across developer experience, software development lifecycle improvements, and core business capabilities.
Own delivery outcomes by establishing clear team commitments, tracking progress, and ensuring follow-through on all objectives.
Provide direct people leadership including recruitment, performance management, team culture development, budget oversight and cost control.
Develop and mentor team leads and senior engineers to build leadership capacity across your teams and manage team capacity shifts as priorities change.
Lead internal adoption and enablement of new releases by coordinating with Product, Support, Customer Success and other teams on documentation, training and readiness.
Maintain sufficient technical depth to engage across engineering domains, validate technical assumptions and guide technology decisions aligned with business objectives and company standards.
Provide regular performance visibility through weekly and monthly reporting aligned to company frameworks, and ensure teams dedicate time to innovation initiatives.

Requirements

Hands-on experience with AI-assisted and agentic software development, and demonstrated ability to use AI tooling to enhance your own leadership effectiveness.
Proven success leading multiple engineering teams working with cloud-based technologies and SaaS product development at scale in enterprise environments.
Strong delivery mindset with a track record of accountability, follow-through on commitments and delivering results across competing priorities.
Experience driving internal adoption and enablement of new tools, platforms or releases, and comfort leading teams across both infrastructure and product-facing work.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to engage effectively with non-technical stakeholders.
Technical knowledge at the code level sufficient to validate assumptions and guide sound technology decisions.
Demonstrated passion for people development, building high-performing team cultures and scaling technology teams in growing companies.

What makes this role worth considering

Benevity operates in a dynamic, fast-paced collaborative environment where embracing change is part of the organizational culture. You’ll work with a diverse and inclusive team across global locations while maintaining flexible hybrid work arrangements that balance in-person collaboration with personal well-being.