Tech Lead - ToolHound
Beacon Software2 months ago
Remote, Canada +2 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Own the technical and product roadmap in partnership with the general manager and customers, translating business priorities into an accountable engineering plan.
- Make final technical decisions across architecture, code quality, security, data modeling, performance, release engineering, and migration strategy.
- Take ToolHound’s natural-language assistant and broader AI capabilities from planning through production with evaluations, guardrails, tenant-safe tool use, and reliable agentic workflows.
- Lead and grow the engineering team by mentoring the current engineer and establishing strong engineering practices.
- Increase delivery velocity and codebase reliability through stack modernization, SQL and data-layer improvements, test coverage, automation, and risk reduction.
- Serve as the technical face of ToolHound by building trust with operators and customers and communicating clearly in writing.
Requirements
- Deep, current C# and ASP.NET Core expertise through .NET 8–10, with the ability to own and reshape a large mature codebase immediately.
- Generalist experience spanning web, mobile, data, infrastructure, AI, and cloud, with the ability to learn TypeScript/React, Go, Python, and AWS.
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating cloud systems and modeling, querying, tuning, and reasoning about production databases.
- Hands-on cross-platform mobile experience with .NET MAUI or Xamarin/native development, including scanning, camera, and offline synchronization.
- Production experience with foundation models, LLM tool use, retrieval, evaluations, guardrails, and safe multi-tenant AI workflows.
- Experience leading engineers, setting technical direction, mentoring teammates, and maintaining hands-on coding involvement.
- Strong product and business judgment, including prioritizing roadmaps and communicating decisions to general managers, customers, and non-engineers.
- Preferred experience with TypeScript/React, Go, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, modern CI/CD, Postgres, and metrics or product-analytics tooling.
- Preferred vertical B2B or industrial SaaS experience, including asset management, inventory, field service, logistics, or construction technology.
- Preferred experience with RFID/IoT or hardware-integrated systems, DevExpress reporting, multi-tenant SaaS architecture, licensing systems, or modernization of legacy .NET codebases.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendMobile
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.