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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