Founding Software Engineer

1L

1851 Labs

Software Engineering

Toronto, ON, Canada

Posted on Mar 20, 2026
Josh built the systems at Wish that scaled to 100M+ users. You'll work directly with him. This isn't a backlog-and-sprint job — you'll own hard problems end-to-end: latency, scale, production ML. Ship something on Monday, see users hit it by Tuesday. What you'll doOwn frontend + backend + infraBuild ultra-low-latency systems for real-time image creationPut image models into production — hosting, routing, monitoringBuild MLOps — rollouts, fallbacks, quality checks, cost and speed Tech stackTypeScript / Node.js / ReactConvex, CDN, S3, large-scale image pipelinesHyper-fast diffusion models and low-latency LLMs What we wantShips, then improvesMoves fast without needing permissionCares about outcomes, not just clean codeTakes ownership by default