CTO (Co-founder)

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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
141K-150K Annually
Expert/Leader
Artificial Intelligence • HR Tech • Consulting
The Role
Hands-on CTO Co-Founder responsible for defining technology strategy, architecting and building an AI-powered healthcare payments platform, leading scalable cloud-native software development, integrating billing and payment systems, and recruiting and mentoring the engineering organization. The role spans product execution from MVP to commercial scale and requires collaboration with investors, customers, and company leadership.
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Chief Technology Officer (CTO) - Co-Founder

📍 New York, NY (On-site)

💰 Compensation: $141,000 – $150,000 + Equity

📈 Experience Required: 10+ Years

🎓 Education: Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

About the Opportunity

We are supporting a funded early-stage startup building an AI-powered platform focused on transforming healthcare payment and revenue-cycle operations.

The company is developing intelligent solutions that automate complex healthcare financial workflows, improve operational efficiency, streamline payment processes, and deliver greater visibility across healthcare payment ecosystems.

This is a hands-on CTO Co-Founder opportunity for an entrepreneurial technology leader who can architect, build, and scale products from the ground up while establishing and leading a high-performing engineering organization.


What You'll Do
  • Define and execute the company's technology vision and engineering strategy

  • Architect and build the initial product platform from concept to market

  • Design scalable, secure, and reliable software systems

  • Lead development of AI-enabled workflow automation capabilities

  • Evaluate and select technology stack, infrastructure, and development practices

  • Build integrations across healthcare, billing, claims, payment, and financial systems

  • Recruit, mentor, and lead the engineering team

  • Collaborate closely with leadership, investors, advisors, and customers

  • Drive product execution from MVP through commercial scale

Preferred Areas of Experience

Experience in one or more of the following domains is highly desirable:

  • Healthcare Technology

  • Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)

  • Claims Processing

  • Healthcare Payments

  • FinTech

  • Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

  • Workflow Automation

  • Enterprise SaaS

  • Data Infrastructure

  • Healthcare Interoperability

Required Qualifications
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience

  • Proven experience building products from zero-to-one

  • Strong expertise in software architecture and system design

  • Experience leading engineering teams and technical initiatives

  • Ability to remain hands-on while managing technical strategy

  • Strong product mindset and customer-focused approach

  • Experience building scalable cloud-native applications

  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Preferred Qualifications
  • Previous founder, co-founder, founding engineer, or early-stage startup experience

  • Experience in high-growth technology environments

  • Background in regulated, transaction-heavy, or data-intensive industries

  • Experience developing AI-powered products or intelligent automation platforms

  • Experience hiring and scaling engineering organizations

Ideal Candidate Profile

This role is best suited for candidates currently working as:

  • CTO

  • VP Engineering

  • Head of Engineering

  • Director of Engineering

  • Founding Engineer

  • Principal Engineer

  • Technical Co-Founder

The ideal candidate combines deep technical expertise with founder-level ownership, urgency, and execution capability.

Work Authorization

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

  • No Visa Sponsorship Available

  • No Relocation Assistance Available

Skills Required

  • 10+ years of software engineering experience
  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
  • Experience building products from zero to one
  • Strong expertise in software architecture and system design
  • Experience leading engineering teams and technical initiatives
  • Ability to remain hands-on while managing technical strategy
  • Strong product mindset and customer-focused approach
  • Experience building scalable cloud-native applications
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Legally authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship
  • Previous founder, co-founder, founding engineer, or early-stage startup experience
  • Experience in high-growth technology environments
  • Background in regulated, transaction-heavy, or data-intensive industries
  • Experience developing AI-powered products or intelligent automation platforms
  • Experience hiring and scaling engineering organizations
  • Experience in healthcare technology, revenue cycle management, claims processing, healthcare payments, fintech, artificial intelligence and machine learning, workflow automation, enterprise SaaS, data infrastructure, or healthcare interoperability
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The Company
30 Employees
Year Founded: 2024

What We Do

Straffing AI combines board-level HR consulting with AI-powered talent technology to help organizations build higher-performing workforces. Its services include strategic talent acquisition, executive search, AI-assisted candidate screening, competency mapping, workforce planning, culture and leadership diagnostics, organizational design, and global compliance automation. The company serves scale-ups, MSMEs, enterprises, and conglomerates across regions, using human-guided algorithms and outcome-oriented advisory to address hiring and people-management challenges.

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