Beacon Software

Systems Engineer

• Lead engineering at System Dynamics, the Beacon company building DYNAMIC 3i ERP software for distribution and manufacturing businesses
• Make architecture, infrastructure, release, and priority decisions
• Assess, coach, upgrade, and hire engineering team members
• Own OCI compute and databases, site-to-site VPNs, operating-system and database patching, backups, and disaster recovery
• Own and modernize the release pipeline from ticket through staged release and customer update
• Reduce operational risk by replacing aging infrastructure, decommissioning a colocation facility, hardening disaster recovery, and documenting operational knowledge
• Move schema and PL/SQL into Git with migrations and versioned APEX applications
• Establish isolated development environments, automated tests, CI gates, and code review practices
• Introduce AI coding agents for schema and PL/SQL work, ticket-history analysis, and Forms-to-APEX migration
• Lead modernization of Forms and Reports 12c and approximately 1,000 APEX applications
• Migrate on-premises and colocation customers to OCI, including VPNs, data transfer, application setup, and weekend cutovers
• Build alerting and an on-call rotation to improve uptime
• Communicate with the GM, customer IT staff, customer DBAs, and support teams

Lead Engineer – Systems Dynamics

Full-stack Engineer

• Own the technology for 99Pledges as its only engineer
• Set the product and engineering roadmap with the GM, product team, and customers
• Manage donations, automatic payouts, payment-provider reconciliation, retries, idempotency, webhooks, and provider degradation
• Move AI features from planning to production using evaluations, guardrails, and tenant-safe tool use
• Use coding agents as part of day-to-day work
• Improve engineering foundations with trunk-based development, CI, synthetic-data staging, feature flags, test coverage, and reliable deployments
• Document the codebase, tests, and processes for future engineers
• Handle fraud detection, device fingerprinting, and abuse prevention
• Monitor cloud and vendor spending and identify cost-saving opportunities
• Work directly with operators, school administrators, and partners
• Own alerting, uptime, incident response, and post-incident follow-up, including weekend incidents during scheduled fundraising campaigns