Lead Senior Developer

Bentley Systems; Quebec; Hybrid; CAD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid role

Volunteer Bentley Impact Day

Recognition programs

Job summary

Bentley Systems in Quebec is seeking an experienced Senior Developer to lead a cross-functional software engineering squad responsible for modern web applications that support Bentley’s infrastructure and engineering products. The role focuses on developing an internal platform to assess release readiness, quality, and security throughout the lifecycle.

You will mentor engineers, drive architecture decisions, and ensure secure, scalable production systems using React, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/SE or related field.
• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including senior roles.
• Proven experience leading software development teams delivering complex products or platforms.
• Strong architecture and system design experience.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
• Experience with Agile delivery and modern CI/CD practices.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Mentoring engineers and driving technical excellence.
• Experience delivering high-quality software in security/compliance governed environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the squad’s technical direction, implementation strategy, architecture, and engineering standards.
• Build scalable, production-grade front-end apps using React, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, plus C# and ASP.Net Core patterns.
• Deep knowledge of REST and GraphQL APIs, including security, versioning, performance optimization, and external service integration.
• Mentor engineers and promote maintainable, scalable system design.
• Drive best practices across development, testing, automation, observability, security, and operational excellence.
• Coordinate sprint planning, backlog refinement, and reviews to meet objectives.
• Identify risks and dependencies and drive timely resolution.
• Collaborate with product teams and stakeholders for cross-team delivery.
• Ensure activities meet security, governance, and compliance requirements.
• Explore emerging technologies to create business value and reduce technical debt.

Skills

React

TypeScript

HTML5/CSS/JavaScript

C# / ASP.Net Core

REST / GraphQL

Azure DevOps / GitHub

Agile methodologies

Security & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

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.

Location

Quebec, Canada. Flexible / Hybrid

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.

This is a Hybrid role.

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.