This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Take on a full-time role as the lead engineer within one of Beacon's portfolio firms.

• Regularly write production code and deliver functional software to customers promptly and consistently.

• Gain knowledge and experience across the company's entire technology stack.

• Enhance the software development lifecycle utilizing CI, testing, staging, feature flags, and deploys that are accessible to all, alongside coding agents.

• Mentor current engineers and elevate the team's engineering practices.

• Collaborate with the General Manager to define the product and engineering roadmap while managing trade-offs.

• Implement coding-agent workflows to speed up delivery processes.

• Integrate AI features into products, focusing on retrieval, tool usage, evaluations, and establishing guardrails in production.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in software engineering, including roles as a tech lead, founding engineer, or CTO in a small company, or being the sole engineer maintaining a product.

• Proven experience in shipping production code across at least three distinct technology stacks.

• Quick adaptability to learn new technology stacks.

• Background in taking over disorganized codebases and motivating disheartened teams.

• Regular user of coding agents with the ability to demonstrate their configuration.

• Capable of working directly with General Managers, operators, and clients.

• Able to make independent decisions without daily oversight.

• Bonus: experience as the inaugural engineering leader in a company.

• Bonus: experience in vertical or B2B SaaS, particularly in scenarios where the purchaser and end user are distinct individuals.

• Bonus: experience in modernizing a legacy codebase without a complete rewrite.

• Must reside in Canada.

🏝️ Benefits

• Beacon has secured over $550M from investors such as General Catalyst, Lightspeed, D1 Capital, CPMG, and the family offices of the founders of Stripe, DoorDash, and Ramp.

• AI-supported hiring process where every application is evaluated by humans.

• Participation in an optional diversity survey; declining to participate does not influence the job application.