Bentley Systems
Lead Senior Developer
Quebec City, Quebec, Canada · Senior
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About the role
- The successful candidate will help evolve an internal platform used by our global software organization to assess, govern, and improve release readiness, software quality, and security compliance throughout the development lifecycle.
- This role requires strong hands-on expertise in React-based frontend development, cloud-native solutions on Microsoft Azure, and CI/CD practices using Azure DevOps.
Responsibilities
- Lead the squad's technical direction, implementation strategy, architecture, design decisions, and engineering standards.
- Build scalable, production-grade front-end applications using React, TypeScript, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript, as well as C# and ASP.Net Core Application patterns, with a focus on maintainability, accessibility, and performance.
- Deep knowledge of REST and GraphQL APIs, including API and MCP design, security, versioning, performance optimization and integration with external enterprise services.
- Review technical solutions, mentor engineers, and promote maintainable, scalable and reliable system design.
- Drive best practices across software development, testing, automation, observability, security and operational excellence.
- Identify delivery risks, technical dependencies, and blockers, and drive timely resolution.
- Coordinate with other squad leaders, product teams and operational stakeholders to support successful cross-team delivery.
- Identify opportunities where emerging technologies can create measurable business value, reduce technical debt, eliminate manual processes, and improve the developer experience.
- Use observability, operational metrics, and continuous improvement to support data-driven decision making.
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 7+ years working in relevant Software Engineering roles, including Senior Software Engineer.
- Proven experience leading software development teams delivering complex products or platforms.
- Experience with modern cloud-native architectures and distributed systems.
- Experience with software delivery platforms including Azure DevOps (ADO) and GitHub.
- Experience working in Agile software delivery environments.
- Experience delivering high-quality software in environments with security, compliance, or governance requirements.
- Support incident management, production investigations, and root cause analysis when required.
- Strong software architecture and system design experience.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and drive technical excellence.
Nice to have
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
- Experience with software quality, compliance, governance, or security tooling.
- Experience with Azure or other major cloud platforms.
- Experience using data and analytics to improve engineering outcomes.
- Experience leading geographically distributed teams.
- Step into a collaborative work environment where ideas flourish, and teamwork propels us forward towards shared success.
- Celebrate milestone achievements and moments that matter through our colleague recognition award programs and our Bentley Achievers platform.
- Discover our latest user success stories for an insight into our global impact.
Skills
- Flexible / Hybrid
Compensation
- An attractive salary and benefits package.
Benefits
- An attractive salary and benefits package.
- A commitment to inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing through global initiatives and resource groups.
Company info
- 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.
- Bentley Systems' 5,200 colleagues generate annual revenues of more than $1 billion in 194 countries.
- 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.
- Equal Opportunity Employer:
- Bentley is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and considers for employment all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, gender/gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, religion/belief, national origin, caste, age, or any other characteristic protected by local law or unrelated to job qualifications.
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