Lead Software Engineer

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🔥 13 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Beacon Software

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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

• Join one Beacon portfolio company full time as its lead engineer and grow it • Pick up the company's stack, work in the codebase, and ship working software to customers early and often • Modernize the software development lifecycle with CI, tests, staging, feature flags, deploy-anyone-can-run workflows, and coding agents • Coach existing engineers and improve their engineering practices • Set the roadmap with the general manager and own trade-offs • Introduce coding-agent workflows to accelerate delivery and teach the team to use them • Put AI capabilities into products, including retrieval, tool use, evaluations, and guardrails in production • Write code daily

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of software engineering experience • Experience 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 and working across .NET, Rails, Python, TypeScript, Oracle, PHP, and other stacks • Experience taking over messy codebases and discouraged teams • Uses coding agents every day and can demonstrate their setup • Ability to work directly with GMs, operators, and customers • Ability to work independently with good judgment • Vertical or B2B SaaS experience, especially where the buyer and user are different people (bonus) • Experience modernizing a legacy codebase without a rewrite (bonus) • Experience as the first engineering leader at a company without one (bonus)

🏖️ Benefits

• Beacon has raised $550M+ from investors including General Catalyst, Lightspeed, D1 Capital, CPMG, and family offices of the founders of Stripe, DoorDash, and Ramp • Hands-on engineering role with ownership of a portfolio company's engineering direction • Opportunity to work with coding agents and put AI into products • Opportunity to coach and develop existing engineering teams • Potential to remain with one company for years or move to another portfolio company when appropriate