Lead Software Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – 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 portfolio company full time as its lead engineer and grow it • Write code every day and coach surrounding engineers to improve their coding • 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, deploys anyone can run, and coding agents • Coach the engineers already at the portfolio company • Work with the GM to set the product roadmap and own trade-offs • Introduce coding-agent workflows so work that took weeks can take days • Put AI capabilities into production products, including retrieval, tool use, evaluations and guardrails

🎯 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 software development experience in at least three different technology stacks • Comfortable learning and working across stacks including .NET, Rails, Python, TypeScript, Oracle, PHP and others • Experience taking over a messy codebase and a discouraged team • 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: first engineering leader at a company with no prior engineering leadership • Bonus: vertical or B2B SaaS experience, especially where the buyer and user are different people • Bonus: experience modernizing a legacy codebase without a rewrite

🏖️ 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-enabled tools are used to support hiring efficiency and consistency, with every application reviewed by a team member and hiring decisions made by humans.