[Hiring] Tech Lead @Beacon Holdings

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 ToolHound, a mature, profitable tool-and-asset-management platform used by industrial, construction, energy, and manufacturing customers to track where every tool and asset is, who has it, and what it costs them. You won't advise from the outside. You'll own the codebase, set the roadmap, lead the team, and be measured on the value you create. This is an AI-native rebuild, not maintenance. ToolHound is a profitable, established platform, and the mandate is to reimagine what it does with AI at the center, and 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. Deep, current .NET expertise is the price of entry, because that's what ToolHound is built on today. Over time, ToolHound converges onto Beacon's shared engineering standards, and you'll be the one leading that journey. The right person is excited by both mastering the stack in front of them and growing into a broader one.

What You'll Do:

• Own the technical and product roadmap.
• Decide what gets built and why, in partnership with the GM and customers. Translate business priorities (retention, expansion, new verticals, operational leverage) into a sequenced engineering plan you're accountable for.
• Drive everything technical: architecture, code quality, security, data modeling, performance, release engineering, and the migration path. You set the bar and you'll make the final technical decision.
• Ship AI that changes the business, not demos: take the natural-language assistant and the broader AI surface from plan to production.
• Lead and grow the team: mentor the current engineer, raise their ceiling, and establish the best practices.
• Increase velocity and harden the codebase: modernize the stack, tighten the SQL and data layer, invest in test coverage and automation, and pay down risk.
• Be the technical face of ToolHound: earn the trust of operators and customers, set expectations, and communicate clearly in writing.

Qualifications

• A senior .NET expert — day one.
• A genuine generalist ("jack of all trades").
• Cloud and SQL depth.
• Mobile fluency.
• AI-native engineering.
• Technical leadership.
• Product and business instinct.
• A strong writer and communicator who builds trust with non-engineers.

Requirements

• Deep, current C# / ASP.NET Core (through .NET 8–10), comfortable owning a large, mature codebase immediately.
• You're T-shaped, deep in .NET now, but you pick up new languages, stacks, and clouds quickly.
• You've designed, deployed, and operated real systems in the cloud, and can model, query, tune, and reason about production databases.
• Hands-on with cross-platform mobile: .NET MAUI (or Xamarin/native).
• You've shipped production software on foundation models (LLM tool use, retrieval, evals, guardrails).
• You've led engineers, set direction, mentored, and raised quality in a small, high-ownership team.
• You can read what actually drives the business, prioritize accordingly, and defend a roadmap.

Nice to Have

• Experience across our target technologies — TypeScript/React, Go, Python, AWS, Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, modern CI/CD, Postgres, and metrics/product-analytics tooling.
• Vertical / B2B or industrial SaaS experience (asset management, inventory, field service, logistics, construction tech).
• RFID / IoT / hardware-integrated systems.
• DevExpress reporting, multi-tenant SaaS architecture, or licensing systems.
• Experience modernizing or re-platforming a legacy .NET codebase without a disruptive rewrite.

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.