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Founding Engineer - Gentube

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In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
100K-150K Annually
Mid level
In-Office or Remote
Hiring Remotely in United States
100K-150K Annually
Mid level
Own and operate the end-to-end creation platform (frontend, backend, infra, models). Improve real-time generation latency and reliability, optimize cost at scale, maintain queues/fallbacks, and ship continuous improvements to the core create/remix loop and feed/ranking systems.
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Founding Engineer

We think the next consumer giant isn’t a feed. It’s creation.

GenTube: 10M+ creations/month. 50M+ remixes. Real users, real usage.

We’re hiring Engineer #3.

What this role actually is

→ You own the system end-to-end (frontend → backend → infra → models in prod)
→ You make creation feel instant (latency is the product)
→ You drive cost down without hurting quality
→ You keep the system running under load (queues, failures, fallbacks)
→ You ship continuously while everything is changing

Ship → measure → fix → repeat

The next 10 engineers will copy your standards.

What you’ll work on

→ Core loop: create → remix → repeat
→ Real-time generation (latency, cost, scale)
→ Feed + ranking (what gets seen, what gets built on)

Models aren’t the hard part. The system around them is.

Stack

TypeScript · React · Node · Convex
Real-time inference + large-scale image pipelines

Who you are

→ You’ve shipped systems people actually use
→ You optimize for speed and outcomes, not process
→ You’re comfortable owning messy, undefined problems
→ You care about latency, reliability, and cost as first-class problems

Exceptional new grads welcome if you’ve built real things.

Us

Toronto, in-person
Tiny team, shipping daily

Founders: scaled products to 100M+ users, $2B+ GMV, prior AI exit to Microsoft
Backed by top investors

Comp

$100–150K + meaningful equity

gentube.app
mo [at] gentube [dot] app

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