Lead Software Engineer
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Lead engineer embedded in Beacon Software’s acquired vertical SaaS companies. Shipping code, modernizing SDLCs, coaching teams, and deploying AI-powered product capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- 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
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