Founding CTO (New Healthcare Startup) at Red Cell Partners
$200,000–$300,000from the description
Jul 1, 2026
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Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A founding engineering leadership role at an early-stage women's health platform that already has a live beta. The work centers on inheriting and evolving an existing codebase — improving backend architecture, data integration pipelines (lab providers, wearables, EHR), and AI-powered features such as conversational health check-ins and predictive models, all within HIPAA-compliant infrastructure. Suits a senior engineer with healthcare data and AI/ML experience who is comfortable operating as a technical decision-maker in a startup setting.
Senior level · 10+ years · Remote · Full-time
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 510 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 150–770
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $178,991 (middle half $141,096–$225,584). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
This is a Founding CTO role — the posting frames it as a founder-level, high-ownership position with a clear path to building and leading an engineering team. The day-to-day work at this early stage is predominantly hands-on engineering (inheriting a live codebase, building pipelines, implementing AI features), which is why 15-1252 Software Developers is a credible alternative SOC. 11-3021 is chosen as primary because the role explicitly includes hiring, establishing engineering culture, and mentoring — and carries a CTO title with org-building scope.
Seniority is assessed as Senior rather than Staff or Principal: despite the 'Founding CTO' framing, the team is currently very small (no existing engineering org to lead), the scope is a single product, and 10+ years is a standard Senior/Architect gate. The advertised title is Principal-equivalent.
Python is listed as a preference ('Preference on experience with Python and TypeScript') but also appears in the main requirements block as 'Comfortable with Python, Node.js, or similar' — treated as a hard gate on the capability, with Node.js as an alternative. TypeScript is listed alongside Python in the preference statement but is a named technology in the requirements context; treated as required given the overall framing.
Health data integration experience (HL7, FHIR, lab data, EHR systems) is stated in the main 'Who You Are' requirements block and is treated as a hard gate. Wearable device integrations (Oura, Apple HealthKit, Whoop, Garmin) appear under 'Bonus Points' and are marked preferred.
LOINC codes and lab data standards appear only under 'Bonus Points' and are marked preferred.
Claude/Cursor/GitHub appear in the requirements block as examples of 'AI-native development workflows' the candidate should be comfortable with, but the framing is tool-agnostic ('or similar tools'); marked preferred to avoid over-gating on specific tooling.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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