Portfolio Software Engineer in Toronto

Beacon is building the essential technology infrastructure for the everyday economy: the businesses, organizations, and services that make real life work, and that mainstream tech has largely left behind. We acquire, operate, and grow vertical market software companies. They are niche, founder-built businesses serving industries that are often overlooked and too profitable to ignore.

Our model is simple: we seek out founders who have built their business by spending years understanding their market and prioritizing their customers' specific needs. We buy great businesses, invest in their continued growth, and hold them permanently, accelerating that growth with an AI-native platform built specifically for vertical market software.

The role involves working alongside small engineering teams within the companies we own. You will not act as a consultant or contractor but will bring agentic development to teams, weigh in on important decisions, and leave each team faster than you found it. You will carry two or three companies at a time.

Examples of what you'll do:

• Show a team how to ship a feature in days instead of weeks, and stay until they can do it without you.
• Work a production incident with the team. Find the root cause, then fix whatever let it happen.
• Review the design for the next big piece of work before anyone writes code.
• Interview candidates for a company that has never run a hiring process.
• Find the manual process eating a GM's week and automate it away.

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of experience across several stacks. Religious about none of them.
• Judgment that does not need a committee. You are often the only Beacon person in the room.
• A nose for what matters. You can tell which roadmap item pays for the other nine.
• Initiative. Nobody hands you a backlog. You find the work.
• Comfort with context switching - you may work with 3+ companies in a given week.
• Easy to work with. The engineers you support do not owe you their trust. You earn it.
• Daily use of AI coding tools, and the ability to teach them to someone else.

Our Values at Beacon Software:

• Humility: We acknowledge that the path to getting to the right answer involves being wrong along the way. 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.
• Hunger: We play to win. We hold ourselves to high standards and will not be outworked.
• Horizon: We seek to build a generational software company. This will take decades.

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.