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About the Role
As a Founding Engineer at Glass Factory, you will build the company's technical foundation, owning meaningful product surfaces end-to-end from idea to production. This role involves working at the intersection of product, backend systems, and customers, leading the development of customer-impacting features and collaborating closely with the founding team. You will be responsible for defining not only how things are built but also what gets built and why.
Responsibilities
- Own product development end-to-end
- Take ownership of features or product areas on a 3–6 week cadence, from concept through rollout
- Translate product goals into concrete engineering plans and execution
- Partner deeply with Product & Design
- Collaborate with Product on ideation, scoping, and prioritization
- Help turn ambiguous product ideas into clear technical requirements
- Build across the stack
- Lead development across backend and frontend
- Typical ownership areas include: Backend workflows, APIs, data models, and AI features.
- Feature-level infrastructure (jobs, orchestration, observability)
- Product logic that spans backend + frontend
Requirements
- You’re a product-minded engineer
- You frame engineering work in terms of user value and business impact
- You care deeply about what you’re building, not just how
- You enjoy owning a problem end-to-end and seeing it through to customers
- You’re technically strong
- 5+ years of experience building full-stack systems
- Experience working with data-heavy systems and production infrastructure
- Familiar with modern product stacks and tooling
- You take extreme ownership of everything you do
- You move fast, iterate, and aren’t afraid of ambiguity
- You communicate clearly and make tradeoffs explicit
- You raise the bar for quality while shipping continuously
- You are excited to get in front of customers and learn from them
- Applications open until August 15th 2026
- Please send a CV, GitHub, portfolio, or examples of products you have built to: work@glassfactory.info
Skills
- Python (Django, FastAPI)
- TypeScript (React)
- MongoDB
- Postgres
- AWS
- Snowflake
- Temporal0
Location
- Montreal, Canada
Work Type
- Onsite (5 days/week)
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience building full-stack systems
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary and equity
Benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Food and meals provided in our Montreal office
- Travelling to factories / team offsites
About the Company
- Glass Factory is a manufacturing platform for fashion brands.
- We turn designs into high-quality products through a combination of AI systems and global factory relationships.
- We’ve developed an audience of 1.5M+ across YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and our own platform.
- Our content is central to how we educate brands, build trust with factories, and make the manufacturing world more transparent.
- We’re based in Montreal, Canada, building fast and ambitious systems to automate manufacturing.