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Founding Engineer

San Francisco, California, United StatesRemoteFull Time$100,000–$200,000 /yrPosted 2 months agoHidden Gem · YC Startup

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Role summary

Seeking a Founding Engineer to build production-grade systems in the Legal/Medical AI space. This role requires strong backend skills in Python, TypeScript, or Go, with deep comfort in Supabase, PostgreSQL, or comparable managed DB platforms. Experience with Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Next.js, or serverless-first architectures is essential. Familiarity with RAG pipelines, LLMs, or agentic systems is preferred. The ideal candidate has good judgment, can debug performance issues, ships fast, and refactors effectively. Bonus points for exposure to legal data or building products for legal/insurance professionals or consumers.

### **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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