Beacon Software
Beacon Software acquires, operates, and grows vertical market software businesses serving Main Street sectors, offering permanent ownership rather than buy-to-flip exits and shared product, AI, and go-to-market resources. It builds an AI-native platform and provides in-house engineering to modernize portfolio products while keeping each company’s brand and customers intact. Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Toronto, the company is privately held and focuses on niche operational software across the real economy.
Open Positions at Beacon Software
5 open positions
Portfolio Software Engineer partners directly with small engineering teams across Beacon’s portfolio companies to accelerate delivery, improve systems, and introduce AI-assisted development practices. The role combines hands-on coding, technical judgment, incident response, process automation, and mentoring across two or three companies at a time.
Portfolio Software Engineer partners directly with small engineering teams across Beacon’s portfolio companies to accelerate development, improve systems, and solve high-impact operational problems. The role combines hands-on coding, technical judgment, mentoring, incident response, automation, and hiring support across multiple codebases.
Lead Software Engineer embedded with a Beacon portfolio company, writing production code daily while modernizing its engineering practices, coaching the team, and setting the product roadmap. The role also introduces AI-powered development workflows and production AI features.
Lead Software Engineer who joins a Beacon portfolio company as its hands-on engineering leader, shipping software, modernizing development practices, and coaching the existing team. The role combines technical ownership, roadmap leadership, and practical application of AI to products and engineering workflows.
Build and own foundational systems for Beacon’s multi-tenant SaaS operating platform, spanning data infrastructure, backend services, workflows, observability, and safety. This flat-organization Staff Engineer-equivalent role offers broad end-to-end ownership over systems operating across 100+ portfolio companies.