Lead Software Engineer

Beacon Software

. Join one Beacon portfolio company full time as its lead engineer and grow it .

Posted 10/17/2026full-timeRemote • CanadaSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates extensive software engineering expertise with a focus on modernizing development practices and leading engineering teams. Proficient in multiple technology stacks and capable of integrating AI capabilities into products while ensuring effective collaboration with stakeholders.

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7+ Years Of Software Engineering ExperienceTech Lead Or CTO ExperienceProduction Code Shipped In Multiple Technology StacksExperience With Coding AgentsB2B SaaS Experience

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Hard Skills

.NETRailsPythonTypeScriptOraclePHPSoftware Development LifecycleCI/CDLegacy Codebase ModernizationAI Integration

Soft Skills

CoachingGood JudgmentIndependent WorkCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

Coding AgentsFeature FlagsStaging EnvironmentsDeployment Workflows

Industry Keywords

Vertical SaaSB2BProduct Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

OraclePHPPythonRuby on RailsTypeScript.NET

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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