Founding Engineer
Dench.com
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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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