Beacon Platform is the premier enterprise innovation platform designed to supercharge developer productivity, enabling innovative financial services firms to get more value out of their R&D. Beacon partners with and empowers clients to become change agents in their organizations through cutting-edge technology tools. Beacon is developing the future of financial services on the cloud.

Beacon gives businesses and their developers the flexibility and scale they need to gain a competitive edge. Beacon removes the shared pain of designing new applications and strategies by streamlining the development and deployment process, enabling teams to rapidly experiment with new solutions and business models, all on the cloud. Beacon provides clients with a powerful set of cross-asset trading and risk tools and analytics out of the box, including full access to source code, and lets them build on top.

Our Co-Founders

Mark Higgins and Kirat Singh built Beacon to apply the lessons they learned from almost 20 years of building trading and risk platforms at investment banks. Mark and Kirat have a goal to create an ecosystem that enables collaboration and innovation across business lines and breaks down silos. They saw the opportunity to help companies of all sizes unlock the potential of modern technology.

Our Team

Innovation, diversity, and experience
Beacon is led by Wall Street technology veterans who have built, managed, and employed enterprise innovation platforms at some of the largest investment banks in the world. We have over 60 developers around the world and are actively hiring to support our clients and our company’s growth.

Why Beacon?

Beacon gives financial businesses the flexibility and scale they need for a competitive edge. Beacon’s secure sandbox infrastructure, full suite of developer tools, and transparent source code enable our clients to own the full stack, customize, and scale technology to achieve their business goals.
 

• Increase revenue
• Save time and money
• Improve collaboration and productivity
• Create customized technology solutions
• Address a broad spectrum of needs
• Leverage powerful tools built into the platform

Our Values

At Beacon we believe that respect, integrity, and diversity lead to excellent products and services for our clients and exceptional experiences for our employees.
 

• Clients First
  We focus on empowering our clients with the premier infrastructure and analytics platform that enables them to build successful and innovative businesses with forward-looking technology. We are mission-driven to deliver the best product and customer service.
• Diversity and Inclusion
  We foster an environment where our differences are valued and respected, because applying different perspectives to problems is a better way of solving them and because it’s the right thing to do.
• Empowering our Employees
  We foster an open culture where we push and trust our colleagues, whether that means supporting professional development, exploring a new business idea, or accommodating personal time and working arrangements.
• Respect
  We believe in respectful collaboration, intellectual curiosity, treating people with courtesy and civility, and engaging in thoughtful discussion.
• Integrity
  We believe that doing the right thing is the optimal strategy for both long term commercial success and for building a satisfying work environment, even if it occasionally impacts short term gains.
• Technical Excellence
  We put a premium on technical and analytical skills at Beacon, as well as the ability to consistently deliver an excellent product on time to our clients. We have high standards and are proud of them.

Join Us

Build best-in-class platforms with us
At Beacon, we are passionate about building best-in-class financial platform, trading, and risk management tools. If you are interested in helping to shape our company and build the future of the financial industry on the cloud, talk to us!

Careers
Entrepreneurial, innovative, and fast-paced culture where every employee’s contributions matter

Diversity and inclusion are more than just words to us—diverse companies are proven to be better performers. Creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work helps us create a rewarding work environment and better understand our customers’ needs.