CTO
Startup Talents · New York, NY
$291,200
Jul 15, 2026
New York, NY
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A founding CTO role at an early-stage startup building an AI-driven healthcare payments platform. The hire will personally architect and code the initial product, select the technical stack, design secure and scalable systems for claims and revenue-cycle workflows, and embed AI-powered automation from the ground up. They will also recruit and lead the first engineering team and work closely with the CEO and investors to move from MVP to a commercial product.
Senior level · National · Bachelor's required · Full-time
Pay in the description: $140,000–$150,000
Advertised as Principal, but the requirements read as Senior.
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How this req sits in the market our data
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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)
Location is not stated anywhere in the posting. A relocation package is offered, suggesting an in-person or hybrid role, but no city or region is specified. CBSA fields are left blank.
The posting caps experience at 'up to 10 years,' which is unusually low for a CTO title. Combined with the $140K–$150K base (modest for a CTO), 15–20% equity, and early-stage context, this reads as a founding/early-stage technical leader role rather than a mature executive hire. The seniority is assessed as Senior rather than Staff/Principal because the scope is a single early-stage product with a small team to be built — not org-wide authority over an existing large engineering organization.
The alt SOC (15-1252 Software Developers) reflects the posting's heavy emphasis on hands-on, personal coding and architecture contributions — the JD explicitly states this is 'not an advisory CTO role' and expects the hire to personally build the MVP.
The degree requirement states 'Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a closely related field' as a hard requirement, and separately lists 'Graduate of top 10 School' as a preferred qualifier. Only the degree level is treated as a hard gate; the school ranking is a preference.
Skills are described in terms of capability areas rather than named tools or frameworks. The posting does not specify particular cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), ML frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow), or orchestration platforms (Kubernetes, Docker) — only capability categories. Named technologies are not listed, so only the capability-level skills are captured.
The '15–20% equity on top of base salary' is a notable compensation element that cannot be represented in the comp fields, which capture only the $140K–$150K base salary range.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): claims/billing systems integration, workflow automation, revenue cycle management.
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