Senior Solutions Developer, Business Applications

Benevity; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Benevity is seeking a Senior Solutions Developer for its Technology Operations team. This hybrid role in Calgary or Vancouver involves turning business needs into secure internal applications, owning the full lifecycle from assessment to retirement, and building integrations with Jira, Zendesk, NetSuite, and Salesforce.

You will work closely with Security, DevOps, and IT to ensure scalable, maintainable solutions, leveraging AWS serverless services and industry-standard practices.

Qualifications

• Experience coordinating with business stakeholders to clarify requirements and deliver practical solutions.
• Proven ability to deploy and operate cloud applications using managed or serverless services.
• Strong debugging and code-reading skills across unfamiliar codebases.
• Knowledge of secrets management and secure API integrations throughout an app lifecycle.
• Experience with access control, authentication, and secure data handling.

Responsibilities

• Understand problems from stakeholders and evaluate current processes before proposing solutions.
• Turn prototypes into supported internal tools with clear ownership and maintenance plans.
• Read, debug, and improve existing code and build internal applications as needed.
• Build and manage an AWS environment with Lambda, S3, CloudFront, API Gateway; ensure deployment and monitoring practices.
• Implement authentication with Okta and collaborate with Security on access controls.

Skills

6+ years experience

Stakeholder collaboration

Debugging fundamentals

Cloud deployments

Secrets management

Delivery practices

Clear communication

Computer Science degree or equivalent

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS (serverless)

Jira

Zendesk

NetSuite

Salesforce

Workato

Okta

Job description

Senior Solutions Developer, Business Applications

Location

Calgary, Alberta; Vancouver, British Columbia

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Technology

Meet Benevity

Benevity is the way the world does good, providing companies (and their employees) with technology to take social action on the issues they care about. Through giving, volunteering, grantmaking, employee resource groups and micro-actions, we help most of the Fortune 100 brands build better cultures and use their power for good. We’re also one of the first B Corporations in Canada, meaning we’re as committed to purpose as we are to profits. We have people working all over the world, including Canada, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States and more!

Benevity’s Technology Operations group builds and runs the systems our internal teams rely on every day. We’re looking for a Senior Solutions Developer to help turn business needs, useful scripts, and early prototypes into secure, reliable internal applications.

Reporting to the Manager, Business Applications, you’ll work directly with stakeholders to understand their workflows, assess options, and deliver practical solutions. You’ll own the technical lifecycle of internal tools, from assessment and implementation through hosting, access control, maintenance, and retirement. You’ll also contribute to the integrations that connect our business systems.

This is a hands‑on role for someone who enjoys both solving business problems and making the technology work. You’ll have room to establish how we bring internal tools into supported operation, working closely with Security, DevOps, and IT. Good judgment about what to configure, integrate, buy, or build matters as much as the ability to write code.

What you’ll do

• Work with business stakeholders to understand the problem, current process, users, and desired outcome. Challenge assumptions and evaluate existing capabilities before recommending a new solution.

• Establish a practical path for useful prototypes and scripts to become supported internal tools. Assess business value, data sensitivity, support needs, and ownership before deciding what to keep, improve, migrate, or retire.

• Read, debug, and improve code developed by others, including AI‑assisted prototypes. Develop internal applications where needed, keeping solutions simple, documented, and maintainable.

• Build and manage a dedicated AWS environment for internal applications, using managed and serverless services such as Lambda, S3, CloudFront, and API Gateway. Establish repeatable deployment, versioning, rollback, scheduling, and monitoring practices.

• Implement appropriate authentication and authorization, integrating with Okta and working with Security on access standards. Manage secrets and credentials securely, apply least privilege, and protect sensitive business data.

• Own ongoing application health: maintain an inventory and clear ownership records, resolve vulnerabilities against agreed timelines, manage dependencies and credential rotation, review access and costs, and carry out safe retirements.

• Build and maintain API‑based integrations between internal tools and systems such as Jira, Zendesk, NetSuite, and Salesforce. Contribute to reusable integration patterns and build working depth in Workato alongside our existing team.

• Assess vendor‑provided connectors and MCP capabilities before considering custom implementations. Use established solutions where they meet the need and make the case clearly when custom development is justified.

• Partner with tool creators to make adoption straightforward. Document support and handover practices, share knowledge, and keep stakeholders informed about progress, risks, and application health.

What you’ll bring

• 6+ years of relevant experience in software development, business systems, integrations, or cloud engineering, with hands‑on responsibility for applications or services running in production.

• Experience working directly with business stakeholders to clarify requirements, understand workflows, evaluate alternatives, and translate an ambiguous request into a practical solution.

• Strong programming and debugging fundamentals, including the ability to understand and improve unfamiliar code.

• Experience deploying and operating cloud applications using managed or serverless services. AWS experience is preferred; strong equivalent Azure or Google Cloud experience is welcome, with the ability to become productive in AWS.

• Practical experience with secrets management, authentication, authorization, and secure API integrations. You understand how to protect sensitive data and manage credentials throughout an application’s lifecycle.

• Sound delivery practices across source control, testing, environments, releases, rollback, monitoring, and documentation. You take responsibility for how a solution operates after launch.

• Clear communication, initiative, and sound judgment about scope and complexity. You can explain trade‑offs to technical and non‑technical colleagues and recognize when an existing tool or process change is the better answer.

• A degree in Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.

Helpful experience

• Workato or another enterprise integration platform, including workflow orchestration and ongoing integration support.

• Okta, AWS secrets‑management services, and experience hardening internal tools or AI‑generated code for supported use.

• Governed low‑code tools, vendor connectors, or MCP integrations.

Discover your purpose at work

We’re not employees, we’re Benevity‑ites. From all locations, backgrounds and walks of life, who deserve more …

Innovative work. Growth opportunities. Caring co‑workers. And a chance to do work that fills us with a sense of purpose.

If the idea of working on tech that helps people do good in the world lights you up ... If you want a career where you’re valued for who you are and challenged to see who you can become …

It’s time to join Benevity. We’re so excited to meet you.

Where We Work

At Benevity, we embrace a flexible hybrid approach to where we work that empowers our people in a way that supports great work, strong relationships, and personal well‑being. For those located near one of our offices, while there’s no set requirement for in‑office time, we do value the moments when coming together in person helps us build connection and collaboration. Whether it’s for onboarding, project work, or a chance to align and bond as a team, we trust our people to make thoughtful decisions about when showing up in person matters most.

Join a company where DEIB isn’t a buzzword

Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are part of Benevity’s DNA. You’ll see the impact of our massive investment in DEIB daily — from our well‑supported employee resources groups to the exceptional diversity on our leadership and tech teams.

We know that diverse backgrounds, experiences, skills and passions are what move our business and our people forward, so we're committed to creating a culture of belonging with equal opportunities for everyone to shine.

That starts with a fair and accessible hiring process. If you want to feel seen, heard and celebrated, you belong at Benevity.

Candidates with disabilities who may require accommodations throughout the hiring or assessment process are encouraged to reach out to [e-mail].