Lead Software Engineer
Beacon Software4 days ago
Remote, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Write and ship production software hands-on from the start while learning and improving the company’s existing stack.
- Modernize the software development lifecycle with CI, testing, staging, feature flags, deploy processes, and coding agents.
- Coach existing engineers and improve the team’s engineering practices.
- Set the product and engineering roadmap with the general manager and own delivery trade-offs.
- Introduce coding-agent workflows that accelerate the team’s development process.
- Build AI product capabilities involving retrieval, tool use, evaluations, and guardrails in production.
Requirements
- At least 7 years of software engineering experience, including experience as a tech lead, founding engineer, small-company CTO, or primary engineer responsible for a product.
- Production experience in at least three technology stacks and the ability to learn new stacks quickly.
- Experience taking over messy codebases and helping discouraged engineering teams improve.
- Daily experience using coding agents and the ability to demonstrate the setup.
- Strong independent judgment and the ability to work directly with general managers, operators, and customers.
- Preferred experience as a company’s first engineering leader, in vertical or B2B SaaS, or modernizing a legacy codebase without a rewrite.
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About 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.