Senior Engineering Manager — Developer Platform Lead

Bentley Systems; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Bentley Systems in Dublin seeks a Senior Engineering Manager / Tech Lead to guide the Bentley Developer Platform. You will own delivery of the end-to-end stack from sign-up through API consumption to billing, leading a team of about eight engineers across portal, infrastructure, QA, and security.

You will stay hands-on for a meaningful portion, making technical decisions with the Principal Engineer and driving a commercial-grade platform. Hybrid/office work in Dublin preferred.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with several years leading or managing engineering teams.
• Hands-on technical credibility — able to write code, review architecture, and earn the respect of senior engineers.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, API gateways, OAuth, billing systems integration, and event-driven architectures.
• Strong delivery discipline: sprint planning, release management, and shipping to deadline against an aggressive ramp.
• Proven ability to hire and build a high-performing team quickly.

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 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

SaaS/API platforms

Hands-on coding

Cloud infrastructure

API gateways

OAuth

Delivery discipline

Hiring / team building

Communication

Tools

API gateways

Billing systems

OAuth

Event-driven architectures

Job description

Bentley Systems in Dublin seeks a Senior Engineering Manager / Tech Lead to guide the Bentley Developer Platform. You will own delivery of the end-to-end stack from sign-up through API consumption to billing, leading a team of about eight engineers across portal, infrastructure, QA, and security.

You will stay hands-on for a meaningful portion, making technical decisions with the Principal Engineer and driving a commercial-grade platform. Hybrid/office work in Dublin preferred.