[Hiring] Tech Lead @Beacon Software

Role Description

Beacon buys great vertical software businesses and makes them dramatically more valuable, not by squeezing them, but by giving them world-class engineering and AI leadership they could never hire on their own. Our engineers go where the work is: embedded inside a single business, owning its technology end to end, and compounding its enterprise value quarter over quarter.

This role is one of those seats. You will be the technical leader for a mature, profitable B2B SaaS platform in our portfolio — an established product with real customers, real revenue, and years of accumulated code behind it. You won't advise from the outside. You'll own the codebase, set the roadmap, and be measured on the value you create.

Be clear-eyed about the shape of this job: for the foreseeable future, you are the engineering team. There is no one to delegate to and no one to hide behind. Everything technical is yours — the architecture, the deploys, the incidents, the vendor calls, the hard prioritization calls about what doesn't get built. The people who thrive in this seat are the ones who find that clarifying rather than daunting, and who create leverage through automation and good architecture instead of headcount.

The platform is established and profitable, and the mandate is to reimagine its core workflows with AI at the center, retire the expensive third-party dependencies it has outgrown, and cut the operational drag that currently taxes engineering. You're the technical leader who owns that from the front.

We're looking for a jack of all trades, a strong generalist who can go deep where it counts. The good news on the stack: this business is already close to where Beacon is going — Python and TypeScript services on AWS, React on the front end, Kubernetes, Postgres, Terraform. There is no legacy-platform tax to pay here. The leverage is in delivery discipline, in the parts of the platform that grew organically and now need real architecture, and in the AI surface that doesn't exist yet. You'll be the one who builds all three.

What you'll do

• Own the technical and product roadmap.
• Decide what gets built and why, in partnership with the GM, the pod's product team, and customers.
• Drive everything technical: architecture, code quality, security, data modeling, performance, release engineering, and the migration path off the vendors we no longer want to depend on.
• Ship AI that changes the business, not demos.
• Operate as a team of one, and build like you won't be.
• Increase velocity and harden the codebase.
• Own the operating cost.
• Own security and data handling as engineering work.
• Be the technical face of the business.

Qualifications

• A senior Python and TypeScript engineer — day one.
• A genuine generalist ("jack of all trades").
• Cloud and SQL depth.
• Release engineering conviction.
• AI-native engineering.
• Proven sole ownership.
• Product and business instinct.
• A strong writer and communicator.

Nice to have

• Multi-tenant SaaS architecture, and the isolation and access-control problems that come with it.
• Event-driven and queue-backed systems at meaningful volume.
• Cross-platform mobile experience.
• Third-party integration work at depth.
• Security and privacy engineering.
• Experience retiring a costly vendor dependency by building the replacement in-house.
• Vertical or B2B SaaS experience.

Our Values at Beacon Software

• Humility : We acknowledge that the path to getting to the right answer involves being wrong along the way.
• Honesty : We are truth seeking in our approach to business problems.
• Hunger : We play to win and hold ourselves to high standards.
• Horizon : We seek to build a generational software company.

How We Use AI in Our Hiring Process

To ensure transparency, we want candidates to know that Beacon Software uses Artificial Intelligence and AI-enabled tools to assist with screening, reviewing, organizing and highlighting profiles and applications that match the key requirements for each role.

AI does not make hiring decisions: Every application is reviewed by a member of our team, and all decisions throughout the process are made by humans.