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# Lead Software Engineer at Beacon Software

- **Company:** Beacon Software
- **Location:** Canada
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-22
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/beaconsoftware/79f78cf1-2878-45a7-a1b3-2d0cb437f107

## Job description

About Beacon Software: 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.

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. 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. This is a hands-on role. You will write code every day, and you will coach the people around you to write better code than they did before you arrived.

What You'll Do:

- Ship. You are hands-on from day one. Pick up the company's stack, get into the codebase and put working software in front of customers early and often.
- Modernize the SDLC. CI, tests, staging, feature flags, a deploy anyone can run, coding agents in the loop. Do it while still shipping.
- Coach the engineers already there. Most of our teams are small and have been heads-down for years. Make them better.
- Set the roadmap. Work with the GM to decide what gets built and own the trade-offs.
- Change what a week of work looks like. We work with coding agents every day. Work that took the team weeks should take days. You set that up and teach the team to run it.
- Put AI in the product. Retrieval, tool use, evals, guardrails, in production.

Who You Are:

- 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.

Bonus Points:

- You have been the first engineering leader at a company that had none.
- Vertical or B2B SaaS experience, especially where the buyer and the user are different people.
- You have modernized a legacy codebase without a rewrite.

## 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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