📍 Locations: San Francisco, Toronto, or Remote (Hybrid options available)
💼 Type: Full-time | On-site or Remote
💰 Compensation: $200K – $250K base salary + equity (exact package determined during interview)
Open Roles: 4 Engineers, 1 Designer
Beacon is a software holding company founded by Divyahans Gupta and Neelam Ganenthiran, focused on acquiring and growing vertical market software businesses. We’ve raised $100M+ from tier-one investors and have acquired 20+ companies spanning industries like campground management and political fundraising.
We are profitable, growing rapidly, and have recently closed our Series B with Series C on the horizon. With a stealth-like operating model, we maintain a low public profile while scaling our portfolio from the inside out.
As a Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDE) at Beacon, you'll be at the intersection of engineering and business acceleration. You’ll embed within 2–3 portfolio companies at a time, diagnosing critical engineering bottlenecks, shipping new features, and unlocking commercial growth.
This is a unique opportunity to build and scale multiple businesses simultaneously while working in a startup environment backed by a profitable, venture-funded platform.
You’ll be responsible for:
Vibe-coding new AI-powered features and products
Modernizing backends and frontends across various tech stacks
Supporting market and product expansion into adjacent verticals
Collaborating directly with product, design, and business leaders
5–10 years in full-stack software engineering
Background at high-growth startups (e.g., Ramp, Rippling, Scale AI, etc.)
Founding engineer or ex-founder strongly preferred
Big Tech experience acceptable only if combined with recent startup exposure
Strong full-stack engineering skills with at least 35% frontend exposure
Excellent debugging and systems problem-solving ability
Able to ramp up quickly on unfamiliar codebases and tools
Entrepreneurial: You want to build businesses, not just software
Commercially aware: You solve for business outcomes, not just elegant code
Curious: You’re excited about private equity, AI, and vertical SaaS
Interested in one day starting your own B2B SaaS company
$200K – $250K base salary + equity in a profitable, fast-growing company
Hands-on exposure to scaling and operating a portfolio of software businesses
A flexible work setup: San Francisco, Toronto, or remote
Standard healthcare and benefits
A unique opportunity to learn, build, and lead across multiple verticals
Only have Big Tech experience with no startup involvement
Are focused solely on AI research or hype technologies
Prefer working on a single, narrow technical domain