Founding Engineer
Dench.com, San Francisco, California +1
- Pay
- $100K–$200K / year
- Work type
- Remote
- Level
- Not stated
- Area
- Software engineering
- Posted
- Jul 2, 2025
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About the role
Qualifications
- production-grade understanding of relational databases (migrations, RLS, permissioning, schema design)
- interest in Legal / Medical AI fields
- strong backend skills in python, typescript, or go
- deep comfort with supabase, postgres, or comparable managed DB platforms
- good judgment on choosing libraries, managing state, avoiding tech debt
- experience debugging edge-case latency and performance in both frontend and backend
- prior work with Cloudflare workers, Vercel, Next.js, or serverless-first architectures
- experience working with RAG pipelines, LLMs, or agentic systems preferred
- ability to ship fast and refactor hard
- bonus: exposure to legal data, court records, or insurance claims
- bonus: you’ve built something used by lawyers, insurers, or pissed-off consumers
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