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 dofrontend, backend, infra — all of it, no handoffsbuild the fastest image generation pipeline on the internetship models to production and keep them runningrollouts, fallbacks, quality, cost, speed — all yoursstackTypeScript / Node.js / ReactConvex, CDN, S3, large-scale image pipelinesdiffusion models + low-latency LLMswhat we wantyou've built and shipped real products, not ticketsyou move through the full stack without waiting for anyoneyou optimize for what works, not what looks good in a PR