Tech Lead
Beacon Software2 months ago
Remote, Canada or Toronto, CanadaStaff+
Responsibilities
- 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 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.