Lead Software Engineer

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🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Beacon Software

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2024

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

SaaS • Artificial Intelligence • B2B

Beacon Software is a long-term owner and operator that acquires and grows trusted software businesses by adding product, engineering, AI, go-to-market and operational capabilities. It positions itself as a permanent home for founders and their teams, investing people, technology and capital to modernize products, build applied AI features, add embedded fintech, and scale sales and operations while preserving customer relationships and brands. Beacon offers shared services (product & engineering, finance & operations, sales & marketing, applied AI, operating leadership and partnerships) to help acquired software companies accelerate growth and deliver new AI-enabled products to their customers.

📋 Description

• Work full time as lead engineer inside one of Beacon's portfolio companies • Write production code daily and ship working software to customers early and often • Learn and work across the company's technology stack • Modernize the software development lifecycle with CI, tests, staging, feature flags, deploys anyone can run, and coding agents • Coach existing engineers and improve team engineering practices • Set the product and engineering roadmap with the General Manager and own trade-offs • Implement coding-agent workflows to accelerate delivery • Add AI capabilities to products, including retrieval, tool use, evaluations, and guardrails in production

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including time as a tech lead, founding engineer, CTO of a small company, or the one engineer holding a product together • Production code shipped in at least three different technology stacks • Comfortable learning new technology stacks quickly • Experience taking over messy codebases and discouraged teams • Uses coding agents every day and can demonstrate their setup • Able to work directly with GMs, operators, and customers • Able to exercise independent judgment without daily supervision • Bonus: experience as the first engineering leader at a company • Bonus: vertical or B2B SaaS experience, especially where the buyer and user are different people • Bonus: experience modernizing a legacy codebase without a rewrite • Must be located in Canada

🏖️ Benefits

• Beacon has raised $550M+ from investors including General Catalyst, Lightspeed, D1 Capital, CPMG, and the family offices of the founders of Stripe, DoorDash, and Ramp • AI-assisted hiring process with every application reviewed and decisions made by humans • Optional diversity survey participation; refusal does not affect the job application

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