Founding CTO (New Healthcare Startup)

About MyPattern

MyPattern is a women's health intelligence platform that delivers personalized, longitudinal care across every life stage. We're building what the healthcare system has failed to provide: a comprehensive view of women's health that connects the dots between symptoms, lab results, lifestyle factors, and the hormonal shifts that influence everything from mood and energy to fertility and cognition.

The problem we're solving is systemic. Women's health concerns are routinely dismissed, fragmented across specialists, or reduced to one-size-fits-all solutions. The average woman with a complex health issue sees multiple doctors over years before getting answers—if she gets them at all. The healthcare system wasn't designed for the interconnected, evolving nature of women's bodies.

We integrate symptom tracking, lab testing, wearable data, and medical history into one AI-powered intelligence system that helps women see patterns their doctors miss, prepare for life stage transitions, optimize treatments, and advocate for themselves with data that can't be dismissed.

Our primary users are women navigating perimenopause, fertility challenges, postpartum recovery, and conditions like PCOS and autoimmune disorders—women who have been told 'it's just stress' or 'your labs are normal' without proper investigation. We're giving them the tools to take control of their health.

The Role

MyPattern's beta is live. Real users are in the product. Now we need the hands-on engineering leader who will take it from here.

As Founding CTO, you'll partner directly with our founder to scale and deepen the platform that's already in users' hands. This is a high-impact, founder-level role — you're not starting from zero, but you're shaping everything that comes next. You'll inherit and evolve a live codebase, accelerate feature development, and harden the infrastructure as we grow from beta into our full product launch.

Expect to wear many hats, move fast, and have significant influence over our product, team, and company as we scale. The technical decisions you make now will define MyPattern for years.

What You'll Do

• Take Ownership of a Live Product — Inherit a working beta with real users and make it better — faster, more reliable, and more capable.
• Architect the Health Intelligence Engine — Evolve and deepen the backend infrastructure, APIs, and data models that power personalized health insights.
• Develop and Extend Data Integration Pipelines — Build on and expand robust ETL pipelines ingesting data from diverse sources: lab providers (Quest, LabCorp), wearables (Oura, Apple Health, Whoop, Garmin), medical records, and user-entered data.
• Build AI-Powered Features — Implement and refine the conversational AI health check-ins, treatment recommendation engine, and predictive models that surface insights.
• Own Security and Compliance — Build and maintain HIPAA compliant infrastructure from day one, own the security posture, and ensure we meet the highest standards for handling sensitive health data.

Who You Are

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with 3+ years in a technical leadership role (CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, or equivalent)
• Deep full-stack experience (we use TypeScript / React / Node.js / Python / PostgreSQL / LLMs)
• Strong understanding of HIPAA compliance, data security, and healthcare infrastructure (or deep willingness to learn fast)
• Experience with data integration pipelines (ETL, API integrations, lab data, wearables)
• AI/ML experience, particularly with LLMs and conversational AI interfaces
• Startup experience — you've been at an early-stage company and know what it takes to build from scratch
• Product-minded — you care deeply about user experience and can make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed and quality
• Hands-on and humble — you're not afraid to write code, debug infrastructure issues, or do whatever it takes to move the product forward