Lead Software Engineer
Beacon Software4 days ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Write and ship production software in the portfolio company’s existing stack.
- Modernize the software development lifecycle, including testing, staging, feature flags, and deployable workflows.
- Coach existing engineers and improve the team’s engineering practices.
- Set the product roadmap with the general manager and own prioritization trade-offs.
- Establish daily coding-agent workflows to accelerate development.
- Implement retrieval, tool use, evaluations, and guardrails in production products.
Requirements
- 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 discouraged teams and improving them.
- Daily experience using coding agents, with the ability to demonstrate the setup.
- Ability to work directly with general managers, operators, and customers and exercise independent judgment.
Benefits
- The engineer joins one established, profitable portfolio company full time and may remain there for years or move to another portfolio company as appropriate.
- The role offers hands-on ownership of engineering, product roadmap decisions, team coaching, and AI adoption.
- Bonus qualifications include being the first engineering leader at a company, vertical or B2B SaaS experience, and 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.