Tech Lead
Beacon SoftwareResponsibilities
- Own the technical and product roadmap in partnership with the GM, product team, and customers.
- Make final technical decisions across architecture, code quality, security, data modeling, performance, release engineering, and vendor migrations.
- Build and ship production AI workflows with evaluations, guardrails, tenant-safe tool use, and customer-facing features.
- Operate as the sole engineer while improving architecture, automation, testing, documentation, and readiness for future hires.
- Introduce disciplined delivery practices including trunk-based development, automated testing, staging environments, feature flags, and reliable deployment paths.
- Improve platform velocity, resilience, operational efficiency, and cloud and vendor cost management.
- Own production security and data handling, including least-privilege access and protection of sensitive data in non-production environments.
- Act as the technical face of the business and communicate clearly with operators, customers, legal, and other non-engineering stakeholders.
Requirements
- Senior-level, current experience building Python backend services and Node/TypeScript systems and owning a large mature codebase.
- Broad generalist capability across web, mobile, data, infrastructure, and AI, with the ability to learn new stacks quickly.
- Hands-on experience designing, deploying, and operating AWS systems using Kubernetes, queues or event-driven workers, infrastructure-as-code, and production Postgres.
- Experience introducing trunk-based development, automated testing, and disciplined environments without halting product delivery.
- Production experience with foundation-model software, retrieval, tool use, evaluations, and guardrails in multi-tenant products.
- Experience as the sole engineer or clear technical owner responsible for design, development, deployment, on-call, and customer communication.
- Strong product and business judgment, including roadmap prioritization and distinguishing costly technical debt from lower-impact cleanup.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with non-engineering stakeholders.
- Preferred experience with multi-tenant SaaS architecture and access-control or isolation challenges.
- Preferred experience operating event-driven and queue-backed systems at meaningful volume, including throughput, backpressure, idempotency, and provider degradation.
- Preferred cross-platform mobile experience and experience maintaining a mobile release channel.
- Preferred deep third-party integration experience involving APIs, webhooks, file-based handoffs, and undocumented customer systems.
- Preferred security and privacy engineering experience, including SOC 2, PII minimization, encryption, secrets management, and audit logging.
- Preferred experience replacing costly vendor dependencies in-house without a disruptive rewrite.
- Preferred vertical or B2B SaaS experience where buyers and end users differ.
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About Beacon Software
Beacon is the permanent home for Main Street software and services supporting the real economy. We buy, build, and grow exceptional mission-critical software businesses, preserving their legacy while expanding the scale of their founders’ ambitions. Our model is different. Unlike private equity, we don’t buy to flip. We hold forever, investing in product, customers, and teams for the long term. Founders who join Beacon gain more than capital: they access in-house engineering, AI, design, and fintech expertise, as well as a network spanning Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Main Street. We simplify the back office, accelerate growth with proven playbooks, and give founders the freedom to focus on what they do best: building great software for their markets. Every company under the Beacon umbrella remains independent, with its own brand and customers, but benefits from shared resources and immediate value creation. Our approach has already helped portfolio companies win major RFPs, modernize technology stacks, and expand market share. Beacon was founded by experienced operators and investors from companies like D1 Capital, Instacart, Sequoia Capital, and Databricks who believe ambitious software deserves a forever home. Our success is measured founder by founder, company by company, and we’re just getting started.