CTO

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Looking for an exceptional CTO (This is not an advisory CTO role, but hands-on) to lead technology, product architecture, and engineering execution for a new AI healthcare payments company.

This is a funded, early-stage venture built around a high-conviction thesis at the intersection of healthcare, payments, revenue cycle, and AI. The company is focused on improving complex financial workflows across the healthcare ecosystem, including provider-payer payment processes, claims workflows, revenue cycle operations, payment reconciliation, denials, and administrative automation.

This is not an advisory CTO role.

We are looking for a hands-on technical leader

who can build the product, architect the platform, recruit the early engineering team, and move quickly from MVP to scalable commercial product.

What We’re Building

The company is developing an AI-enabled healthcare payments application designed to improve how healthcare organizations manage payment, claims, and revenue-cycle workflows.

The platform will use AI, workflow automation, data integrations, and secure infrastructure to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, accelerate payment processes, and create better visibility across healthcare financial operations.

Areas of focus may include:

Claims and payment workflow automation

Provider-payer financial operations

Revenue cycle and reimbursement workflows

Denials, reconciliation, and payment exceptions

Healthcare data ingestion and normalization

Secure integrations with healthcare, billing, claims, and payment systems

AI-assisted decisioning, workflow routing, and operational intelligence

What We’re Looking For

We are looking for a CTO Co-Founder who combines strong technical depth with founder-level urgency.

Ideal candidates will have:

Experience building products from zero to one

Former Founder Or Early Technical Leadership Experience (Not Required)

Structured technical training in computer science, engineering, or a related field

Experience in top-tier engineering environments, high-growth startups, or complex technical organizations (think 1-2 years with Palantir in a Health Tech role)

Ability to personally build while also recruiting and leading an engineering team

Strong product instincts and comfort working with customers, commercial leaders, investors, and advisors

Interest or experience in healthcare, payments, fintech, revenue cycle, or healthcare infrastructure

A strong bias toward action and comfort operating with ambiguity

Healthcare payments experience is strongly preferred, but not required if the candidate has strong technical leadership experience in a regulated, data-heavy, workflow-heavy, or transaction-oriented environment.

Relevant Backgrounds

Strong candidates may come from:

Healthcare technology

Revenue cycle management

Claims technology

Payments / fintech

AI workflow automation

B2B SaaS

Enterprise software

Data infrastructure

Healthcare interoperability

Provider, payer, billing, or financial operations platforms

What You’ll Do

Own the technology vision, architecture, and engineering roadmap

Build and launch the initial product

Evaluate and select the technical stack

Design secure, scalable systems for healthcare payment workflows

Build AI-enabled workflow automation into the product from the beginning

Lead integrations with healthcare, claims, payment, billing, and data systems

Recruit and lead the early engineering team

Work directly with the CEO, investors, advisors, and early customers

Turn a validated thesis into a scalable commercial product and company