Lead Senior Developer

1125 Bentley Canada, Inc; Quebec; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bentley Impact Day

Colleague recognition programs

Inclusion and wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Bentley Systems seeks a Lead Senior Developer in Quebec to guide a cross-functional squad building modern web applications and cloud-native solutions. You will own delivery, architecture, and code quality across frontend and backend, collaborating with product, security, and operations teams.

The role is hybrid, offering hands-on leadership and opportunities to shape engineering practices, platform standards, and delivery culture within Bentley’s global software organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading software teams delivering complex products.
• Strong software architecture and system design skills.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience with Agile software delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the squad's technical direction, architecture, design decisions, and engineering standards.
• Build scalable front-end using React/TypeScript and back-end with C# ASP.NET Core, focusing on maintainability and performance.
• Review solutions, mentor engineers, and promote scalable, reliable system design.
• Drive best practices in software development, testing, automation, observability, security and governance.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, and sprint reviews to meet objectives.
• Coordinate with other squads, product teams, and stakeholders to enable cross-team delivery.

Skills

Strong communication

Mentor engineers

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or related discipline

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Location

Quebec, Canada

Flexible / Hybrid

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Senior Developer to lead a cross-functional software engineering squad responsible for developing, enhancing, and maintaining modern web applications that support Bentley’s infrastructure and engineering products. The successful candidate will help evolve an internal platform used by our global software organization to assess, govern, and improve release readiness, software quality, and security compliance throughout the development lifecycle. This role requires strong hands-on expertise in React-based frontend development, cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure, and CI/CD practices using Azure DevOps. As Lead Senior Developer, you will provide hands-on technical leadership, delivery ownership, and team coordination for a platform that gives product teams centralized visibility into engineering health, software delivery quality, security posture, and release compliance. This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys building modern, user-centric web applications at scale while shaping engineering practices, platform standards, and delivery culture, working with global, cross-functional teams across product, architecture, security, release, and operational disciplines to help teams release software with greater confidence.

This is a Hybrid role.

Responsibilities

• Lead the squad’s technical direction, implementation strategy, architecture, design decisions, and engineering standards.
• Build scalable, production-grade front-end applications using React, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as C# and ASP.Net Core Application patterns, with a focus on maintainability, accessibility, and performance.
• Deep knowledge of REST and GraphQL APIs, including API and MCP design, security, versioning, performance optimization and integration with external enterprise services.
• Review technical solutions, mentor engineers, and promote maintainable, scalable and reliable system design.
• Drive best practices across software development, testing, automation, observability, security and operational excellence.
• Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, and retrospectives to achieve agreed objectives, priorities, and measurable commitments.
• Identify delivery risks, technical dependencies, and blockers, and drive timely resolution.
• Coordinate with other squad leaders, product teams and operational stakeholders to support successful cross-team delivery.
• Ensure development activities meet security, compliance, and governance requirements.
• Identify opportunities where emerging technologies can create measurable business value, reduce technical debt, eliminate manual processes, and improve the developer experience.
• Use observability, operational metrics, and continuous improvement to support data-driven decision making.
• Support incident management, production investigations, and root cause analysis when required.
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years working in relevant Software Engineering roles, including Senior Software Engineer.
• Proven experience leading software development teams delivering complex products or platforms.
• Strong software architecture and system design experience.
• Experience with modern cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience with software delivery platforms including Azure DevOps (ADO) and GitHub.
• Experience working in Agile software delivery environments.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and drive technical excellence.
• Experience delivering high-quality software in environments with security, compliance, or governance requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building developer platforms or engineering productivity solutions.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
• Experience with software quality, compliance, governance, or security tooling.
• Experience with Azure or other major cloud platforms.
• Experience using data and analytics to improve engineering outcomes.
• Experience leading geographically distributed teams.

What We Offer

• Step into a collaborative work environment where ideas flourish, and teamwork propels us forward towards shared success.
• An attractive salary and benefits package.
• Bentley Impact Day: take a day off from work to volunteer with an organization of your choice.
• Celebrate milestone achievements and moments that matter through our colleague recognition award programs and our Bentley Achievers platform.
• A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups.
• Be part of a company committed to making a real difference by advancing the world’s infrastructure for better quality of life, where your contributions help build a more sustainable, connected, and resilient world.
• Discover our latest user success stories for an insight into our global impact.

Who We Are

Bentley Systems (Nasdaq: BSY) is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure - sustaining both the global economy and environment. Our industry-leading software solutions are used by professionals, and organizations of every size, for the design, construction, and operations of roads and bridges, rail and transit, water and wastewater, public works and utilities, buildings and campuses, mining, and industrial facilities. Our offerings, powered by the iTwin Platform for infrastructure digital twins, include MicroStation and Bentley Open applications for modeling and simulation, Seequent’s software for geoprofessionals, and Bentley Infrastructure Cloud encompassing ProjectWise for project delivery, SYNCHRO for construction management, and AssetWise for asset operations. Bentley Systems’ 5,200 colleagues generate annual revenues of more than $1 billion in 194 countries.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Bentley is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers for employment all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, religion/belief, national origin, caste, age, or any other characteristic protected by local law or unrelated to job qualifications.