Founding Software Engineer
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 do- Own frontend + backend + infra- Build ultra-low-latency systems for real-time image creation- Put image models into production — hosting, routing, monitoring- Build MLOps — rollouts, fallbacks, quality checks, cost and speed Tech stack- TypeScript / Node.js / React- Convex, CDN, S3, large-scale image pipelines- Hyper-fast diffusion models and low-latency LLMs What we want- Ships, then improves- Moves fast without needing permission- Cares about outcomes, not just clean code- Takes ownership by default