Software Engineer at Gentube (Toronto, Canada)
Gentube· Toronto, Canada·
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Job description
About GenTube
GenTube is a consumer AI creation app.
We’re a small team in Toronto backed by top consumer investors and operators.
We believe creation should feel like entertainment.
Our goal: turn 1B+ doom scrollers into creators.
If you want to build a real product for millions of people, this is your shot. The companies dominating consumer AI today won’t be the ones defining it tomorrow.
Why Join
- Build something huge
- Ship fast and learn fast
- Work on real product, not meetings
- Care about users and numbers
- Own big parts of the app
Founders previously built products used by 100M+ users and sold an AI startup for $150M.
If you want stability, slow iteration, and narrow scope this is not the job.
If you want maximum impact and speed, keep reading.
Role: Full Stack Product Engineer
You will ship a lot. You will own things end-to-end. You will see your work impact real users immediately.
What You’ll Do
- Build. Ship constantly. Learn from users. Iterate.
- 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 + speed tuning)
- Kill what doesn’t work. Double down on what does. Tech Stack
- TypeScript / Node.js / React
- Convex, CDN, S3, large-scale image pipelines
- Hyper-fast diffusion models and low-latency LLMs
What We Want
- You ship, then improve
- You move fast without needing permission
- You care about outcomes, not just clean code
- You do well with tight time and few resources
- You take ownership by default
Details
- Top market salary + equity
- Health, dental, vision
- Unlimited PTO Ready to build for a billion people? Let's talk.
Why work at Gentube
- Culture: Tiny team (7 people) that ships daily – “we ship daily” is a mantra. High ownership, low process, messy problems.
- Work policy: In-person in Toronto (OnSite workspace per builtin.com). Employees work from physical offices.
- Engineering focus: Founding Engineer role owns end-to-end stack (frontend → backend → infra → models). Stack includes TypeScript, React, Node, Convex, PyTorch, CUDA, real-time inference pipelines.
- Compensation: $100–150K salary + meaningful equity for Founding Engineer (Engineer #3).
- Perks: Direct impact on a product used by 500K+ creators; work with founders who have scaled to 100M+ users; opportunity to define the platform from scratch.