Description
Compensation
- Ontario Pay Transparency Range CA$137,800 – CA$179,080 • Offers Bonus
High Level Role Overview
As a DevEX Senior Staff Developer at Benevity, you will lead Developer Experience and SDLC modernization across our technology organization. Sitting at the intersection of hands-on platform engineering, process evolution, and technical leadership, you will design the tooling and infrastructure that transforms AI-assisted development into a seamless, company-wide operating model.
What you’ll do:
- Lead DevX and SDLC technical direction across domains, enabling AI-DLC and agentic automation
- Design and scale agentic systems that accelerate the full software development lifecycle
- Make AI a natural extension of engineering practice while keeping human judgment and security in the loop
- Drive reusable and extendable architecture for developer platforms using public cloud infrastructure
- Work collaboratively with Principal Architects to guide our organizational DevX and AI-DLC strategy
- Partner with stakeholders to translate business needs into highly adoptable platform solutions
- Solve cross-cutting challenges like dev environments, CI/CD supply chains, authentication, and quality gates
- Treat adoption as a primary outcome by diagnosing friction and influencing without authority
- Turn promising tools and shared components into widely used organizational standards
- Ensure DevSecOps practices and cloud-native security are built securely into the delivery stack
- Create and maintain clear technical documentation, enablement guides, and implementation processes
- Promote the adoption of industry-standard tools and shared platform capabilities across the organization
- Ideate and implement thoughtful proof of concepts for platform, agentic, and product advancement
- Provide supportive mentorship to senior developers through practical examples and constructive feedback
- Actively participate in architectural reviews to ensure inclusive design, quality, and consistency
What you’ll bring:
- Proven hands-on experience in Developer Experience (DevX), including building internal developer platforms (IDPs), golden-path templates, automated quality gates, and shared engineering component libraries
- 8+ years of scalable software development experience with software design accountability
- 2+ years in a technical leadership role driving org-wide platform capabilities or engineering productivity
- Expertise in scaling Developer Experience, SDLC tooling, or modern engineering productivity systems
- Hands-on background with AI-assisted development, agentic workflows, and LLM tooling
- Deep commitment to secure, ethical delivery practices and fostering an inclusive engineering culture
- Strong grasp of core cloud infrastructure and how to scale technical solutions across multiple teams
- Demonstrated ability to diagnose team friction, influence workflows, and thoughtfully drive tool adoption
- Solid understanding of 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 along with familiar frameworks like FastAPI or Spring Boot
- Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure on AWS or GCP, with Azure experience as a great bonus
- Excellent communication skills to align product, architecture, security, and engineering teams
- Comfort navigating ambiguous problems with a strong bias toward shipping measurable, user-friendly improvements
- Background integrating engineering systems like Jira, CI, and observability into cohesive workflows