Senior Staff Developer

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Senior Staff Developer in Canada

Benevity
Full time
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Canada
10/10/2026
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Toronto

Responsibilities

Lead Developer Experience and SDLC technical direction across domains, including AI-assisted development and agentic automation.
Design and scale agentic systems that accelerate the software development lifecycle.
Build reusable developer platforms, internal developer platforms, golden-path templates, quality gates, shared component libraries, and cloud infrastructure.
Solve cross-cutting challenges involving development environments, CI/CD supply chains, authentication, security, and quality gates.
Drive adoption of shared tools, platform capabilities, and organizational engineering standards by diagnosing friction and influencing without authority.
Partner with Principal Architects and stakeholders on DevX, AI-DLC, platform, and engineering productivity strategy.
Integrate engineering systems such as Jira, CI, and observability into cohesive workflows.
Create documentation, enablement guides, implementation processes, proof of concepts, and technical standards.
Mentor senior developers and participate in architectural reviews focused on inclusive design, quality, and consistency.

Requirements

8+ years of scalable software development experience with software design accountability.
2+ years of technical leadership experience driving organization-wide platform capabilities or engineering productivity.
Hands-on experience building Developer Experience capabilities, internal developer platforms, golden-path templates, automated quality gates, and shared engineering component libraries.
Expertise in Developer Experience, SDLC tooling, or modern engineering productivity systems.
Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and LLM tooling.
Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, API-first design, loosely coupled systems, and modern software architecture.
Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code, DevSecOps practices, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
Experience coding in Python and/or Java, with familiarity with FastAPI or Spring Boot.
Experience with AWS or GCP cloud-native infrastructure; Azure experience is preferred.
Ability to diagnose team friction, influence workflows, drive tool adoption, and collaborate across product, architecture, security, and engineering teams.
Strong communication skills and comfort navigating ambiguous problems while delivering measurable, user-friendly improvements.
Commitment to secure, ethical delivery practices and an inclusive engineering culture.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid work arrangement with no set in-office requirement for employees located near an office.
Innovative work, growth opportunities, caring coworkers, and purpose-driven work.
Employee resource groups and a strong diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging program.

Benevity

Benevity builds an enterprise SaaS platform for corporate social impact, covering employee giving, volunteering, grants management, ERGs, and donation processing with global charity vetting. Companies use it to run and measure programs for employees and customers, with integrations and payment ra...

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