Senior Engineering Manager, Developer Platform & API Hub

Bentley Systems International Limited; Ireland; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great team culture

Competitive salary & benefits

Diversity & wellbeing programs

Job summary

Bentley Systems is seeking a technically hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team building the Bentley Developer Platform, spanning API gateway, metering, billing, settlement, and standards registry. You will own delivery and build a team of about eight engineers across portal, infrastructure, QA, and security.

This is a hands-on leadership role with sprint planning, coding time, collaboration with the Senior Principal Engineer, and responsibility for end-to-end platform

Qualifications

• 12+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years leading or managing engineering teams.
• Proven track record building a monetized developer platform, commercial SaaS product, or API ecosystem from the ground up at scale.
• Ability to dive deep into code to unblock the team.
• Strong delivery discipline: sprint planning, release management, and meeting deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of the platform across portal and infrastructure teams: API gateway, metering, billing integration, and settlement.
• Hire, organize, and lead a team of ~8 engineers (Portal, Platform Infrastructure, QA/Automation, Security).
• Run sprint planning, delivery cadences, and release management with a reliable delivery pipeline.
• Remain hands-on and contribute to the codebase.
• Deliver foundational milestones: API gateway with OAuth, developer portal, initial monetization, live usage dashboards.
• Collaborate with Product Management to translate specs into delivered software.
• Coordinate L2 support for API integration and performance issues; hand off L3 issues to product teams.
• Partner with Security and Legal to meet security, compliance, and deployment standards.

Skills

Software engineering

Team leadership

Cloud infrastructure

API gateways

OAuth

Monetized platform

Delivery discipline

Effective communication

Tools

Cloud infrastructure tools

Billing systems

Event-driven architectures

Front-end & Back-end tech

Job description

Bentley Systems is seeking a technically hands-on Senior Engineering Manager to lead the engineering team building the Bentley Developer Platform, spanning API gateway, metering, billing, settlement, and standards registry. You will own delivery and build a team of about eight engineers across portal, infrastructure, QA, and security.

This is a hands-on leadership role with sprint planning, coding time, collaboration with the Senior Principal Engineer, and responsibility for end-to-end platform