Founding CTO
Venture studio that launches, operates, and scales technology companies across healthcare, cyber, and national security.
About Red Cell Partners
Red Cell Partners is a McLean, Virginia-based venture studio founded in 2020. It incubates and scales mission-critical technology companies across three practice areas — healthcare, cyber, and national security — with 15 companies created, 12 publicly launched, and over $600M raised across the firm and its incubations.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Partner directly with the founder to evolve a live beta into a full product launch. Own technical decisions across the codebase, backend infrastructure, health intelligence engine, AI-powered features, data pipelines, security, compliance, and engineering culture.
Requirements
- 10+ years of software engineering experience building and shipping complex products.
- Strong backend and infrastructure expertise, including system architecture, APIs, databases, and scalable systems.
- Experience with Python, Node.js, or similar languages.
- Experience with health data, EHR systems, wearable APIs, lab data, or HL7/FHIR standards.
- Data pipeline and ETL experience ingesting, transforming, and normalizing multiple data sources.
- Hands-on proficiency with AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- AI/ML implementation experience with recommendation systems, NLP, conversational AI, or predictive models.
- Experience with LLMs and prompt engineering.
- Understanding of HIPAA requirements and sensitive health-data protection.
- Comfort with AI-native development workflows using tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub.
- Experience in healthcare technology and health-data privacy regulations.
- Startup experience, ownership, adaptability, and comfort with ambiguity.
- Bonus: consumer or clinical health products, LOINC, wearable integrations, mobile development, or founding-engineer experience.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of the live beta product and improve its speed, reliability, and capabilities.
- Assess the existing architecture, close gaps, and build on the current foundation.
- Evolve backend infrastructure, APIs, and data models powering personalized health insights.
- Design systems that synthesize lab results, wearable data, symptoms, and medical history.
- Build and expand ETL pipelines integrating lab providers, wearables, medical records, and user-entered data.
- Ensure data integrity, security, and HIPAA compliance.
- Implement conversational AI health check-ins, treatment recommendations, and predictive models.
- Use Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI-assisted development tools.
- Implement encryption, access controls, audit logging, and security best practices.
- Mentor additional engineers and establish engineering culture, practices, and standards.
Benefits
- Career-track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement.
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for the employee and family.
- 14 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave at normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO with management approval.
- Professional development and continued learning opportunities.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives.
- Mental health benefits through Tara Mind.
- Cost-effective GLP-1 solutions through Crux.