Lead Engineer – Ruby on Rails

🕒 2 days ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Beacon

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2024

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

SaaS • B2B • Artificial Intelligence

Beacon Software is a permanent holding company that acquires, operates, and grows niche, mission-critical software businesses. It provides an integrated operating platform — engineering and product support, applied AI, sales and go-to-market, finance and back-office, embedded fintech, and dedicated operating partners — while preserving portfolio company brands and teams. Beacon targets capital-efficient vertical SaaS businesses with recurring revenue and deep customer retention, moving quickly from LOI to close and aiming to compound growth across its portfolio.

📋 Description

• Set the engineering and product roadmap with the GM, product team, and customers • Translate business priorities into a sequenced plan and explain tradeoffs • Manage donations, automatic payouts, and reconciliation across multiple payment providers • Handle retries, idempotency, webhooks, and degraded payment providers during campaigns • Put AI features into production with evaluations, guardrails, and tenant-safe tool use • Use coding agents to increase individual engineering output • Raise engineering standards through trunk-based development, CI, staging with synthetic data, feature flags, test coverage, and reliable deployments • Document the codebase, tests, and processes for future engineers • Handle fraud detection, device fingerprinting, and donor and school safety • Monitor cloud and vendor spend and optimize costs • Communicate directly with operators, school administrators, and partners • Own alerting, uptime, incident response, and follow-up remediation for scheduled fundraising events

🎯 Requirements

• Senior generalist able to work across web, data, infrastructure, and AI, and pick up unfamiliar stacks quickly • Production experience handling money, including payment integrations, payouts, reconciliation, or fraud work • Experience as the only engineer or clear technical owner of a system that mattered, including design, build, deploy, on-call, and customer support when it broke • Ability to model, query, and tune production PostgreSQL • Experience running migrations against large tables without downtime • Shipped LLM features to production, including retrieval, tool use, evals, and guardrails • Track record of introducing trunk-based development, automated testing, and environment discipline while continuing to ship • Judgment about technical debt and its business cost • Clear writing • Experience with Ruby on Rails 7 and Ruby 3.1 • Experience with PostgreSQL, HAML, SCSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, Delayed Job, Braintree, PayPal, Dwolla, Stripe, Heroku, AWS S3, Redis, Postmark, Honeybadger, New Relic, Datadog, and PostHog • Ability to use coding agents as part of day-to-day work

🏖️ Benefits

• Work on software that helps organizations raise money for causes they care about • Direct, visible impact on the product and the people who depend on it • Small team environment • AI-assisted hiring process with every application reviewed by a human

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