Staff Developer

Role Overview

• 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
• Engage in solving challenging technical and business problems to advance your career.
• Access Benevity's diverse products, teams, and advanced computing resources for continuous learning and growth
• Contribute to delivering high-quality software solutions to global clients, emphasizing innovation and quality
• Embrace opportunities for professional development as a leading engineer in a supportive and inclusive environment
• Help shape how our team adopts AI-driven development practices as we evolve the way we build and ship software

Requirements

• 8 + years of full-stack development experience, coupled with a continuous learning mindset
• 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
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (Cursor, Copilot, Claude, or similar) and a pragmatic approach to integrating AI into your daily workflow
• Demonstrated willingness to navigate and understand cross-domain code. Expertise 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 an 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 subscribe to the paradigm that companies should be socially responsible.

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Drupal
• Java
• PHP
• Terraform

Benefits

• Innovative work
• Growth opportunities
• Caring co-workers
• Flexible hybrid work arrangements
• Chance to do work that fills us with a sense of purpose.