Director, API Foundations

Bentley Systems; Pennsylvania; Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bentley Impact Day

Competitive salary and benefits

Global collaboration opportunities

Employee recognition programs

Job summary

Bentley Systems seeks a seasoned software engineering leader to guide a 20-30 person team delivering API and MCP services across Bentley product groups. The role combines hands-on technical leadership with people leadership, global collaboration, and strategic influence on API standards and open-source collaboration.

Based in the Philadelphia/Exton area with hybrid work, travel about 25% globally, and a focus on delivering scalable, quality software in alignment with product roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Has 15+ years of experience in software development with significant leadership of global teams.
• Leadership experience developing APIs, libraries, platforms, and/or specifications for developers.
• Excellent communication for technical and non-technical audiences, including executives.
• Transparent, politics-free leadership with high emotional intelligence.
• About 25% purpose-based global travel.
• Knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript, C++, SQL, MCP, AWS and/or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering outcomes by leading an engineering team of 20-30 across multiple regions.
• Instill a business-minded engineering culture and document best practices.
• Foster openness and collaboration within teams and with the open-source community.
• Ensure continuous high-quality software delivery and stakeholder engagement.
• Collaborate with product engineering to execute the roadmap.
• Recruit, onboard, coach, and manage performance for contributors and leaders.

Skills

API leadership

Global team leadership

Technical communication

Emotional intelligence

Tools

TypeScript

JavaScript

C++

SQL

AWS

Azure

Job description

Location: Philadelphia or Exton, PA - Hybrid, 3 days per week in office

We are looking for an energetic, technical, and experienced software engineering leader to lead a team of 20-30 developers responsible for delivering our API and MCP foundational services. This team will be responsible for working across Bentley product teams to determine standards for all shared API services and delivering them for use across multiple Bentley teams.
This team will work closely as well with the teams building our API Hub and Commercial services, which will activate our Bentley users across industry to use our APIs and MCP servers in development of their own solutions.
This leader should be a seasoned director or senior director of software development. We believe in player/coaches, we want this leader to still be able to be hands on, able to help their teams solve technical issues, and work with a principal architect to ensure sound design. Most importantly they should be a leader of engineers who invest in the talent, growth, and results of the team.

Responsibilities

• Drive engineering outcomes aligned to desired business objectives by leading an engineering team of 20-30 colleagues, mainly across the US East Coast, Canada, Lithuania, India, and France
• Install a business-minded winning engineering culture and facilitate the team to converge on, document, and execute modern software engineering best practices
• Facilitate a culture of openness and collaboration, internally within and among teams, and externally with the open-source community that we serve
• Run the systems and processes to enable us to continuously ship high-quality software that users want while transparently engaging with stakeholders
• Collaborate cross-functionally, especially with product engineering to execute the roadmap
• Recruit; onboard; coach; grow; and proactively manage performance for individual contributors and leaders. You understand that your success is the team’s success and you are committed to architecting and supporting the team to create business outcomes
• Contribute to investment decisions aligned to market opportunities

Requirements

• Has 15+ years of experience in software development with significant and sustained demonstratable experience leading global teams at scale to enduring business success
• Leadership experience developing successful APIs, libraries, platforms, and/or specifications for software developers
• Is a fantastic communicator in person and in writing to a variety of stakeholders, including technical and non-technical audiences, and individual contributors and executives.
• Is transparent, has no hidden agenda, and demonstrates a high degree of emotional intelligence. Operates without politics
• About 25% purpose-based global travel
• We also prefer Knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript, C++, SQL, MCP, AWS, and/or Azure

This is a Home-based 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.

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