Founding Engineer
Founding Engineer at Dench.com — San Francisco, CA, US
- Company: Dench.com
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Employment type: FULL_TIME
- Salary: USD 100000–200000 / year
- Posted: 2026-07-17
About this 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