Founding Software Engineer

1L
1851 Labs

Software Engineering

Toronto, ON, Canada

Posted on May 1, 2026
once in a lifetime early stage opportunity. you work directly with Josh (scaled Wish to 100M+ users) and own problems end to end. you'll touch more of the stack in a month here than most engineers do in a year.what you'll do- frontend, backend, infra — all of it, no handoffs- build the fastest image generation pipeline on the internet- ship models to production and keep them running- rollouts, fallbacks, quality, cost, speed — all yoursstack- TypeScript / Node.js / React- Convex, CDN, S3, large-scale image pipelines- diffusion models + low-latency LLMswhat we want- you've built and shipped real products, not tickets- you move through the full stack without waiting for anyone- you optimize for what works, not what looks good in a PR