Founding CTO - in Columbus

The Role

We're hiring a hands-on CTO who wants to go 0→1 — someone who thrives at the intersection of fast iteration, deep system design, and direct customer engagement.

Must haves:

Be located in the US and have right to work in the US. Overseas candidates cannot be considered (sorry)

Experience at a 0-1 startup, (ideally as a founding engineer) Seed - Series B, in healthcare, finance, logistics, or supply chain.

Experience designing and building secure, API-connected systems(to be used to bridge fragmented systems together)

Full-stack development experience (Node.js, TypeScript, React, PostgreSQL).

Experience with AWS (Lambda, RDS, S3) and Docker.

You'll:

  • Architect and build the core platform — data models, workflow automation, and the agent layer.

  • Collaborate directly with customers and founders to ship fast, learn faster, and refine the product through real-world use.

  • Pressure-test and evolve our vertical strategy — starting in healthcare, with an open lens to expand where the signal is strongest.

  • Shape culture and product DNA from the ground up — recruiting, mentoring, and setting the engineering bar.

  • Own technical vision and infrastructure — from early integrations (EHRs, ERPs, CRMs) to scaling across industries.

The Opportunity: Across data-rich industries like healthcare, finance, and legal, critical service workflows are still manual and locked inside legacy systems. Building the platform that makes these workflows intelligent, compliant, and AI-augmented from day one.

Starting in healthcare — a fragmented, high-volume ecosystem desperate for automation — to pressure-test our thesis before expanding across other verticals. Live with pilot customers and actively pressure-testing our thesis in real workflows.

The vision is to go deep in one vertical, automate its highest-pain operational workflows, and expand those learnings across other industries. This is the stage where curiosity, rigor, and speed matter most. We're looking for a technical leader who wants to help shape the company from first principles and build from problem to product-market fit.

The company has raised $2MM and has 5 employees. The role has a strong equity component, 5%+.



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Published 2025-10-21 09:50:09

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