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# Lead Engineer - Systems Dynamics at Beacon Software

- **Company:** Beacon Software
- **Location:** Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/beaconsoftware/0ce392ad-802a-4da3-88aa-336abc87ca09

## Job description

System Dynamics (SDC) builds DYNAMIC 3i, an ERP for distribution and manufacturing businesses: order entry, warehouse, financials, manufacturing, job costing, HR, CRM, and mobile van sales, across about 36 modules. Customers run their companies on it every day. It is built on an Oracle stack and hosted on OCI for most customers, with the rest on-prem. SDC is a Beacon company. Beacon buys established vertical software companies and puts real engineering leadership into them. Our engineers embed in one business and own its technology.

## THE ROLE

You lead engineering at SDC. From day one you are the key decision maker on architecture, infrastructure, and releases. You are also a player-coach: hands-on in the code and the infrastructure, while getting the team to carry more of the work, raising the bar for the people already there, and hiring where coaching will not get there. The job is not to do everything. It is to be good enough at everything to set the standard, then build a team that meets it. The product is mature. The engineering practice behind it is not. Version control, automated testing, CI, and modern development workflows are yours to bring in. If that makes you want to run, this is not the job for you. If it makes you want to fix it, keep reading.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Make the technical calls. Architecture, infrastructure, release, and priority decisions sit with you. Explain the tradeoffs to the GM and the team, then hold the line.
- Lead and upgrade the team. Assess who is on it and what they can do. Coach the ones who can grow. Make the hard call where coaching will not get there. Hire to fill the gaps. Build a team that does not depend on any one person, including you.
- Own the platform. OCI compute and databases (container and pluggable), 60 to 80 site-to-site VPNs, OS and database patching, nightly backups, DR. About a dozen cloud customers today, more migrating from on-prem. You know it well enough to run it yourself and well enough to teach it.
- Own the release pipeline. A homegrown system that takes a change from ticket to staged release to a customer-run update. Understand it end to end, then decide what to keep, what to replace, and in what order.
- Reduce operational risk. Ageing infrastructure to replace, a colo to decommission, DR to harden, and operational knowledge that needs to live in documentation and in the team rather than in individuals.
- Get the code into Git. Schema and PL/SQL as code, migrations instead of hand edits on a live database, APEX apps exported and versioned.
- Raise the engineering floor. Isolated dev environments instead of a shared trunk, automated tests (utPLSQL or equivalent), a CI gate that decides what ships, and code review as a habit rather than a bottleneck.
- Use AI on your own work and give it to the team. Coding agents are part of how we expect you to work. Bring them to a team that has not used them yet: agents against the schema and PL/SQL, agents over years of ticket history, AI-assisted migration from Forms to APEX. Beacon runs an AI-native engineering stack across its portfolio and you land it here.
- Lead the modernization. Forms and Reports 12c is in production and Oracle Reports is deprecated. About 1,000 APEX apps already duplicate Forms functionality. Decide the path and sequence it.
- Migrate customers. Move the remaining on-prem and colo customers to OCI: VPN, data export and import, app tier setup, weekend cutover. Do the first ones yourself, then hand the runbook to the team.
- Own uptime. ERP customers run their business on this all day. Build alerting that catches problems before customers do and an on-call rotation that is not one person.
- Talk to non-engineers. The GM, customer IT staff, customer DBAs, and support will come to you directly. Some are pros. Some need you to debug their VPN.

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- A player-coach. You have led a small engineering team while still shipping code yourself. You have raised a team's bar: coached people up, moved people out when that did not work, and hired well.
- Comfortable being the final technical call. You can make decisions with incomplete information, explain them, and change them when the evidence says so.
- A senior generalist. Databases, Linux, networking, deployment, application code. You pick up unfamiliar stacks quickly. This role will not wait for you to become an Oracle specialist first.
- Production infrastructure ownership. You have run databases, Linux fleets, backups, and DR for a business that depended on them. You have been paged. You have done the migration nobody wanted to do.
- Not afraid of a mess. You have walked into a codebase with years of debt and made it better while still shipping. You can tell which debt is costing money and which is just ugly.
- A track record of changing how a team works. You have introduced Git, CI, automated tests, and code review to people who shipped without them for years, and they kept working with you afterwards.
- AI as a default. You use coding agents daily and have opinions about where they help and where they do not. Prototypes do not count.
- Hands on, all the way down. You will write PL/SQL, edit deployment scripts, and debug an IPSec tunnel at 7am if that is what the day needs.
- Clear writing. Decisions, runbooks, and standards get written down so the team can work without you in the room.

## NICE TO HAVE

- Oracle experience of any kind (DBA, OCI, APEX, PL/SQL, Forms and Reports)
- ERP or other long-lived line-of-business software
- SQLcl, Liquibase, utPLSQL, ORDS

## Our Values at Beacon Software

- Humility: We acknowledge that the path to getting to the right answer involves being wrong along the way. We have strong beliefs which are weakly held. We actively seek new ideas and believe we can learn from anyone at any time.
- Honesty: We are truth seeking in our approach to business problems. Business is a repeat game and we believe that human relationships generate alpha. We understand that trust is earned over a lifetime and can be lost in an instant.
- Hunger: We play to win. We hold ourselves to high standards and will not be outworked. We take pride in having a deep sense of responsibility to ourselves, each other, our partners, and our customers. We believe to whom much is given much is expected.
- Horizon: We seek to build a generational software company. This will take decades. We manage our expectations and those of our partners to take advantage of the 8th wonder of the world - compounding growth.

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. We use AI to support efficiency and consistency, not to replace human judgment. We are committed to a fair, thoughtful, and equitable experience for every candidate.

## About Beacon Software

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Beacon Software is a permanent holding company that acquires and grows mission-critical software businesses serving Main Street and the real economy, providing a centralized platform of engineering, AI, and operational expertise.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Toronto, Canada (with offices in New York City and San Francisco)
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Nilam Ganenthiran (Founder & CEO) and Divyahans Gupta (Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Software Development; Vertical SaaS for essential industries (e.g., campground management, municipal government, dance competitions, event management)
- **Target customers**: B2B – small-to-medium businesses and organizations that rely on mission-critical software; also enterprise-level customers through acquired companies
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Beacon is the permanent home for Main Street software and services supporting the real economy.”

## Products & Services
- **Permanent Holding Model**: Beacon acquires software companies outright and holds them forever, keeping the brand, team, and customers intact.
- **Integrated Operating Platform**: Provides acquired companies with shared resources including in-house engineering, AI, design, fintech expertise, back-office automation, and growth playbooks.
- **AI & Technology Enablement**: Leverages an AI platform to help portfolio companies ship faster, automate administration, and expand market share (e.g., collaboration with OpenAI to bring AI certifications to 500,000 Main Street workers).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $250 million Series B (November 2025) led by General Catalyst, Lightspeed, and D1 Capital; previous rounds undisclosed but backed by experienced operators.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, D1 Capital; strategic advisors include Farhan Thawar (Shopify), Euan Blair (Multiverse), Nikila Srinivasan (Meta), Dani Dudeck (Instacart), Sagar Sanghvi (AbridgeAI), Will Petrie (Ramp), and Rob Crisci (Lineage Logistics).
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 63 employees with +9.3% monthly headcount growth
  - 25 active job postings across engineering, product, legal, and AI roles
  - Acquired E2E Soccer Limited (April 2026)
  - Annual revenue estimated at $7.8M [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/beaconsoftware)
  - High-profile hires from Instacart, Databricks, Sequoia, and Constellation Software

## Competitive Advantages
- **Permanent ownership model**: Unlike private equity, Beacon does not flip companies – it holds them forever, aligning long-term incentives with founders and customers.
- **Integrated platform at portfolio scale**: Acquired businesses gain immediate access to a centralized engineering bench, AI tools, design, and GTM resources that would otherwise be out of reach.
- **Founder-centric deal structure**: Beacon uses its own capital to close within 60 days and tailors terms to each founder, preserving the acquired company’s name and team.
- **Network effect**: Access to a broad ecosystem of seasoned operators, investors, and advisors across Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and Main Street.

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand portfolio through disciplined acquisitions**: Target essential software businesses with strong product-market fit and loyal customers in verticals like local government, recreation, and professional services.
- **Deepen AI integration**: Continue building AI capabilities across the platform (e.g., automation of administrative tasks, AI certifications) to drive growth and efficiency for portfolio companies.
- **Scale the operating platform**: Hire top-tier engineering, product, and operational talent to build a “common layer” that compounds across every owned business.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Beacon emphasizes a long-term mindset (“Horizon”), relentless execution (“Hunger”), truth-seeking (“Honesty”), and continuous learning (“Humility”). The team is described as ambitious, driven, and humble.
- **Work Environment**: Remote-friendly with hubs in Toronto, New York City, and San Francisco. Some roles may require in-office presence (e.g., NYC).
- **Impact at Scale**: Engineers and product builders work on software that affects thousands of essential businesses and their customers – every project lands across the entire portfolio.
- **Career Growth**: Early-stage startup energy with strong financial backing; opportunity to shape the platform from the ground up alongside experienced operators.
- **Notable Perks**: Access to a world-class network of advisors, high-autonomy culture, and the chance to work on “real industry” problems that matter.

## Sources
1. [beacon.inc](https://beacon.inc/) – Company overview, values, and operating model
2. [beaconsoftware.com/team](https://beaconsoftware.com/team) – Founder background, advisors, and leadership
3. [beacon.inc/careers](https://beacon.inc/careers) – Careers page with culture and hiring philosophy
4. [linkedin.com/company/beaconsoftware](https://www.linkedin.com/company/beaconsoftware) – Financials, headcount, employee growth, and recent announcements
5. [builtin.com/company/beacon-software](https://builtin.com/company/beacon-software) – Job postings and office locations

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