Beacon

Software Engineer

Beacon  •  $200k - $220k/yr  •  New York City, NY (Hybrid)  •  15 hours ago
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Job Description

Our client, a profitable, founder-led career-services company serving millions of professionals, is hiring a Software Engineer to join as a Product Engineer on a lean, high-impact team building AI-powered features at scale.

This is not a backlog-ticket role. You'll own product areas end to end, from concept through production, working directly with product design and engineering leadership to invent new AI/LLM-powered experiences. The company is EBITDA-positive, self-funded, and moving fast on AI integration after a recent growth inflection, so your work reaches real users immediately, not a backlog buried in a big-company queue.

What you'll do

  • Design and build AI-powered product features with real impact for millions of users, from concept through production
  • Own product areas, services, or technical domains end to end; make structural technical decisions and clearly articulate trade-offs
  • Build and maintain scalable backend services and user-facing applications; continuously improve performance, reliability, and developer experience
  • Work as a genuine brainstorm partner with product design and engineering leadership to iterate on how AI/LLMs get implemented for specific use cases

What we're looking for

  • Strong engineering fundamentals: clean code, healthy system design, logical thinking. Not knowing AI yet is not a dealbreaker if the fundamentals are there
  • Must be a true engineer/coder. ML or AI backgrounds are welcome only if you genuinely build and ship code, not primarily train models as a data scientist or applied researcher
  • 6+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Production experience with React or Next.js
  • Proficiency in at least one of: Go, Python, or JavaScript (backend)
  • Comfort navigating the full stack and pulling in what's needed to ship
  • A strong ownership mindset: takes problems from concept to production without hand-holding
  • NY-based with the ability to work in-office (see schedule below)

A plus, not a requirement

  • Background in recommendation, ranking/matching, or model-training systems (non-deterministic, optimization-driven work) — this mindset tends to transfer well to LLM-based product work
  • Experience with AI tools, prompt engineering, or integrating LLMs into production applications
  • Search infrastructure experience (Elasticsearch or similar)

Compensation

  • Base salary: $200,000 to $220,000
  • Stock options
  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision; 401(k); home office stipend; gym and commuter benefits

Location and schedule: New York, NY. In-office 5 days a week for the first ~6 months while you ramp, then a hybrid schedule (~3 days/week). This is a genuinely in-person, high-collaboration team, not a remote-first setup.

Beacon

About Beacon

Beacon is the talent solution provider for the modern era, on a mission to change the way that companies hire. Founded by a team of operators who bring a fresh, out-of-the-box approach to talent, Beacon is a true partner who is invested in your success, not just another client-vendor relationship. By applying expertise from disciplines like sales and marketing, the Beacon team finds scalable talent solutions that help companies attract, engage and retain the right people, whether your talent program is starting from scratch or you already have a team in place.

Drawing on more than 30 years combined experience recruiting, consulting and leading teams at some of the biggest names in tech, Beacon’s founders were inspired to create a totally new kind of talent organization — one that’s made for modern companies.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Wilmington, Delaware
Year Founded
2018
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