Senior Engineering Manager — API Platform & Developer Hub

Bentley Systems; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 155,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great team culture

Global solutions

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Bentley Systems is seeking a technically hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team building the Bentley Developer Platform—the end-to-end technical stack for developers from sign-up through API consumption to metering, billing and settlement, and API/MCP Standards & Registry.

You will own delivery of this platform and build a team of about eight engineers across portal, infrastructure, QA, and security.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering leadership.
• Proven track record building monetized developer platforms, SaaS, or API ecosystems.
• Ability to dive into code to unblock teams.
• Strong experience with modern cloud infrastructure and API gateways.
• Experience with OAuth, billing integrations, and event-driven architectures.
• Excellent sprint planning, release management, and on-time shipping.
• Proven hiring ability for high-performing teams.
• Experience in federated/matrixed environments is a plus.
• Excellent communication across engineering, product, and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of the platform across the portal and infrastructure teams: API gateway, metering pipeline, billing engine integration, and settlement.
• Hire, organize, and lead a team of approximately eight engineers (Portal, Platform Infrastructure, QA/Automation, and a matrixed Security Engineer).
• Run sprint planning, delivery cadences, and release management, maintaining a continuous and reliable delivery pipeline.
• Make technical decisions in partnership with the Senior Principal Engineer and remain hands-on, contributing to the codebase directly.
• Deliver the platform's foundational milestones, including the API gateway with OAuth-based authentication, the developer portal, the initial commercial model, and live usage and metering dashboards.
• Partner with Product Management to translate product specs for the Developer Hub and commercial engine into delivered software.
• Coordinate L2 developer support for API integration, authentication, and performance issues, and manage the handoff of L3 issues to product teams.
• Partner with Security and Legal to operate within established security, compliance, and deployment standards.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Platform monetization experience

Cloud infrastructure

API gateways

OAuth

Event-driven architecture

Delivery discipline

Hiring high-performing teams

Cross-functional communication

Job description

Bentley Systems is seeking a technically hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team building the Bentley Developer Platform—the end-to-end technical stack for developers from sign-up through API consumption to metering, billing and settlement, and API/MCP Standards & Registry.

You will own delivery of this platform and build a team of about eight engineers across portal, infrastructure, QA, and security.