Lead Senior Developer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative work environment

Salary and benefits package

Bentley Impact Day

Colleague recognition programs

Inclusion and wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Bentley Systems in Quebec City is seeking an experienced Senior Developer to lead a cross-functional software engineering squad building and maintaining modern web applications that support our infrastructure and engineering products.

You will drive technical direction, design scalable front-end and back-end solutions using React, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, C#, and ASP.NET Core, contribute to API design, security, and performance, and mentor engineers in an Agile, hybrid-work

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.

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.

Skills

Leadership

React

TypeScript

HTML5

CSS

JavaScript

C#

ASP.NET Core

REST APIs

GraphQL

Mentoring

Observability

Security

Agile

Communication

Education

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

Tools

Azure DevOps (ADO)

GitHub

Job description

Hybrid

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Full time

RC124

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.

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.

At Bentley, you'll help shape the future of infrastructure with innovative solutions, a global impact, and a culture that values growth, collaboration, and sustainability.

Built by engineers for engineers, Bentley has been the leading global provider of infrastructure engineering software for 40 years. Join us on our continued journey leading industry change.

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.

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