Beacon acquires and grows essential businesses. With our centralized platform, we empower founders with the technology and expertise to better serve their customers. Backed by General Catalyst.
About the role
Lead Software Engineers are Beacon engineers who work inside our portfolio companies. Each company we buy is a profitable, established business with a product its customers rely on. What it has not had is Beacon's engineering model, and you bring it. You join one company full time as its lead engineer and grow it. Some of our engineers stay with one company for years. Others move to a new one when the time is right. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, including time as a tech lead, founding engineer, CTO of a small company, or the one engineer holding a product together
- Comfortable in any stack. You have shipped production code in at least three different ones and you pick up new ones quickly
- A fixer. You have taken over a messy codebase and a discouraged team before and can tell us what you did first
- AI-native. You use coding agents every day and can show us your setup
- Easy to work with. GMs, operators and customers will call you directly
- Good judgment on your own. Nobody will be checking your work daily
More about this role
Beacon https://beaconsoftware.com/ is acquiring and operating a portfolio of vertical SaaS companies. Most private equity firms scale by adding people. We are building Beacon to scale by adding software. The thesis is simple: portfolio operations, value creation, and deal sourcing are bottlenecked by human attention, and an agentic operating system can lift that ceiling by an order of magnitude.
Beacon has raised $550M+ from investors including General Catalyst, Lightspeed, D1 Capital, CPMG, and the family offices of the founders of Stripe, DoorDash, and Ramp.
Lead Software Engineers are Beacon engineers who work inside our portfolio companies. Each company we buy is a profitable, established business with a product its customers rely on. What it has not had is Beacon's engineering model, and you bring it. You join one company full time as its lead engineer and grow it. Some of our engineers stay with one company for years. Others move to a new one when the time is right.
We have several of these seats open. The stack depends on the company: .NET, Rails, Python, TypeScript, Oracle, PHP and others. You should be comfortable in any of them, or able to get there fast.
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