Lead Software Engineer (Fully Remote)

Beacon Holdings; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Beacon Holdings seeks a seasoned tech leader to guide engineering across its portfolio of vertical SaaS companies. Lead engineers inside Beacon portfolio companies, write code daily, and help grow the team while modernizing the SDLC to ship reliable software.

You will set roadmaps with executives, integrate coding agents, and drive AI-enhanced products with retrieval, evals, and guardrails. The firm values humility, honesty, hunger and horizon as it scales through software and AI rather than

Qualifications

• 7+ years as tech lead, founding engineer, or CTO.
• Comfortable with any stack and fixing messy codebases.
• Experience integrating AI into products.

Responsibilities

• Ship working software early and modernize the SDLC.
• Set roadmap with GM and integrate coding agents.
• Add AI to products with retrieval, evals, and guardrails.

Skills

Tech leadership

Founding engineer

CTO experience

AI-native

Job description

• Lead engineers work inside Beacon portfolio companies, bringing the engineering model.
• Write code daily and grow the team.

What You'll Do:

• Ship working software early and modernize the SDLC.
• Set roadmap with GM and integrate coding agents.
• Add AI to products with retrieval, evals, and guardrails.

Who You Are:

• 7+ years as tech lead, founding engineer, or CTO.
• Comfortable in any stack; fixes messy codebases; AI-native.

Beacon Holdings acquires and operates vertical SaaS companies, scaling through software and AI rather than headcount. The firm has raised $550M+ from top investors and values humility, honesty, hunger, and horizon.