Director of API Foundations & Platform Engineering

Bentley Systems; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Bentley Systems is seeking an energetic, technical software engineering leader to guide a 20-30 person team responsible for API and MCP foundational services. The role collaborates with Bentley product teams to define standards for shared API services used across multiple Bentley groups.

The leader will be a seasoned director or senior director, hands-on when necessary, and will work with a principal architect to ensure sound design.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in software development with leadership of global teams at scale
• Experience developing APIs, libraries, platforms, or specifications for developers
• Excellent written and verbal communication to diverse stakeholders
• Transparent leadership with high emotional intelligence and politics-free demeanor
• Willingness to travel ~25% globally
• Knowledge of TypeScript, JavaScript, C++, SQL, MCP, AWS, and/or Azure

Responsibilities

• Lead an engineering team of 20-30 across the US East Coast, Canada, Lithuania, India, and France
• Define and enforce modern software engineering standards and best practices
• Foster openness, collaboration, and cross-team alignment with product engineering and open-source communities
• Ship high-quality software continuously while engaging stakeholders transparently
• Collaborate with product teams to execute the roadmap and deliver value
• Recruit, onboard, coach, and manage performance to grow the team and outcomes
• Contribute to investment decisions aligned to market opportunities

Job description

Bentley Systems is seeking an energetic, technical software engineering leader to guide a 20-30 person team responsible for API and MCP foundational services. The role collaborates with Bentley product teams to define standards for shared API services used across multiple Bentley groups.

The leader will be a seasoned director or senior director, hands-on when necessary, and will work with a principal architect to ensure sound design.