Founding CTO (Healthcare Startup)

Red Cell Partners

7d

About The Position

Savoy Life is a technology-enabled healthcare services startup focused on making healthcare work for seniors and their caregivers. We exist because the senior population is exploding, medical spend is already out of control, and poorly coordinated care is wasting tens of billions of dollars every year. At the same time, the two resources we need most to address this problem - caregivers and primary care providers - are stretched thinner than ever.
Savoy aims to make aging better by restoring agency to seniors and integrating caregiving into the heart of healthcare to allow seniors to spend more quality days at home - and fewer days in the hospital. Today, this includes going into individual homes as well as partnering with senior living communities to coordinate and manage clinical gaps for these seniors, their caregivers, and the care ecosystem. Savoy deploys a team of clinical experts both in-person and virtually paired with proprietary technology to drive clinical outcomes – without disrupting the current care.

Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering experience with a strong track record of building and shipping complex, high‑impact products.
• Experience designing and scaling backend systems, cloud infrastructure, APIs, and data platforms.
• Comfortable owning technical architecture end‑to-end in a fast‑moving startup setting.
• Expertise in database design, distributed systems, and event‑driven architectures.
• Hands‑on experience deploying secure, scalable systems on AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Experience with clinical data structures (EHR, care notes, vitals, symptoms), healthcare integration standards (FHIR/HL7), or related domains.
• Understanding of HIPAA, PHI handling, and the nuances of clinical workflows.
• Experience using LLMs to build production features (NLP, summarization, conversational AI, risk prediction, or agent frameworks).
• Comfortable with prompt engineering, model selection, and grounding strategies.
• Deep understanding of secure system design, encryption standards, access control models, auditability, and threat modeling.
• Experience building systems for regulated industries is a strong plus.
• Thrives in ambiguity, moves with urgency, and brings an ownership mentality.
• Excited to build v0 → v1 → scale while wearing multiple hats.
• Motivated by delivering better healthcare outcomes for seniors and their families.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building care‑enablement, elder care, or digital health tools
• Familiarity with clinical terminology, LOINC/SNOMED codes, or care workflows
• Experience with ambient voice interfaces, IVR systems, or voice AI
• Mobile experience (React Native, Flutter) for caregiver/patient‑facing apps
• Previous founding engineer or technical co‑founder experience

Responsibilities

• Build Savoy Life's Technology Platform from the Ground Up
• Lead AI/ML‑Driven Capabilities
• Develop Healthcare‑Grade Data Integration Pipelines
• Own Security, Compliance & Reliability
• Create and Scale the Engineering Organization

Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows
• 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
• Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
• Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
• Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.
• Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Education Level: No Education Listed