Bentley Systems

Director, API Foundations

Bentley Systems • $150K — $180K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Pennsylvania, US
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
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Qualifications

  • 15+ years of software development experience leading global teams
  • Proven track record in developing APIs, libraries, and platforms
  • Excellent communication skills for diverse stakeholder engagement
  • Demonstrated high emotional intelligence and transparency
  • Willingness to travel globally (about 25%)
  • Preferred knowledge in TypeScript, JavaScript, C++, SQL, MCP, AWS, and/or Azure

Responsibilities

  • Lead an engineering team of 20-30 developers across multiple countries
  • Establish a winning engineering culture focused on best practices
  • Encourage openness and collaboration within teams and the open-source community
  • Implement systems for continuous delivery of high-quality software
  • Work closely with product engineering to achieve roadmap objectives
  • Recruit, onboard, and coach team members to foster individual and team success
  • Drive investment decisions that align with market opportunities

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a diverse international team
  • Hands-on leadership role with a focus on team development
  • Engagement with cutting-edge API and MCP services
  • Chance to influence product standards and engineering culture
  • Career growth potential in a prominent tech organization
Full Job Description
We are looking for an energetic, technical, and experienced software engineering leader to lead a team of 20-30 developers responsible for delivering our API and MCP foundational services. This team will be responsible for working across Bentley product teams to determine standards for all shared API services and delivering them for use across multiple Bentley teams.

This team will work closely as well with the teams building our API Hub and Commercial services, which will activate our Bentley users across industry to use our APIs and MCP servers in development of their own solutions.

This leader should be a seasoned director or senior director of software development. We believe in player/coaches, we want this leader to still be able to be hands on, able to help their teams solve technical issues, and work with a principal architect to ensure sound design. Most importantly they should be a leader of engineers who invest in the talent, growth, and results of the team.

Responsibilities

  • Drive engineering outcomes aligned to desired business objectives by leading an engineering team of 20-30 colleagues, mainly across the US East Coast, Canada, Lithuania, India, and France

  • Install a business-minded winning engineering culture and facilitate the team to converge on, document, and execute modern software engineering best practices

  • Facilitate a culture of openness and collaboration, internally within and among teams, and externally with the open-source community that we serve

  • Run the systems and processes to enable us to continuously ship high-quality software that users want while transparently engaging with stakeholders

  • Collaborate cross-functionally, especially with product engineering to execute the roadmap

  • Recruit; onboard; coach; grow; and proactively manage performance for individual contributors and leaders. You understand that your success is the team's success and you are committed to architecting and supporting the team to create business outcomes

  • Contribute to investment decisions aligned to market opportunities


Requirements

  • Has 15+ years of experience in software development with significant and sustained demonstratable experience leading global teams at scale to enduring business success

  • Leadership experience developing successful APIs, libraries, platforms, and/or specifications for software developers

  • Is a fantastic communicator in person and in writing to a variety of stakeholders, including technical and non-technical audiences, and individual contributors and executives.

  • Is transparent, has no hidden agenda, and demonstrates a high degree of emotional intelligence. Operates without politics

  • About 25% purpose-based global travel

  • We also prefer Knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript, C++, SQL, MCP, AWS, and/or Azure

About Bentley Systems

Bentley Systems, Incorporated is an American-based software development company that develops, manufactures, licenses, sells and supports computer software and services for the design, construction, and operation of infrastructure. The company's software serves the building, plant, civil, and geospatial markets in the areas of architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) and operations. Their software products are used to design, engineer, build, and operate large constructed assets such as roadways, railways, bridges, buildings, industrial and power plants and utility networks. The company's software products are used by professionals such as engineers, architects, geospatial professionals, constructors, and owner-operators. Bentley Systems employs more than 4,000 people, generates annual revenues of more than $700 million in 170 countries, and has invested more than $1 billion in research, development, and acquisitions since 2014.
Learn more about Bentley Systems
Size
4,000 employees
Market Cap
$10.5 billion
Industry
Manufacturing & Automotive
Net Income
$126.5 million
Founded
1984
5 Year Trend
+36.6%
Revenue
$801.5 million
NASDAQ
BSY
* Ladders Estimates

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