Lead Software Engineer — Build AI-Driven SaaS Platforms

Beacon Holdings; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Software is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to bring Beacon's engineering model to one portfolio company. You will lead hands-on coding, define the SDLC improvements, and mentor small teams across stacks.

You will work with the GM to set roadmaps and drive rapid, reliable delivery. The role emphasizes AI-native practices, coding agents, and production-ready code with guardrails while maintaining customer-facing velocity.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, including tech lead or CTO roles.
• Shipped production code in at least three different stacks.
• Comfortable owning a messy codebase and guiding a team.
• AI-native mindset with experience using coding agents.

Responsibilities

• Ship hands-on code from day one across the portfolio company's stack.
• Modernize the SDLC with CI, tests, staging, feature flags, and deploys.
• Coach engineers to improve code quality and practices.
• Set and own the product roadmap with the GM and trade-offs.
• Reduce weeks of work to days by enabling faster delivery.
• Integrate AI into the product with guardrails and production use.

Skills

Software architecture

Team leadership

Production code

Multiple stacks

AI tools / coding agents

Mentoring

Job description

Beacon Software is seeking a Lead Software Engineer to bring Beacon's engineering model to one portfolio company. You will lead hands-on coding, define the SDLC improvements, and mentor small teams across stacks.

You will work with the GM to set roadmaps and drive rapid, reliable delivery. The role emphasizes AI-native practices, coding agents, and production-ready code with guardrails while maintaining customer-facing velocity.