About MedPass
MedPass is a patient-owned health identity and records platform. It puts a verified, portable identity and medical history in the hands of the patient, cutting the intake time, duplicate records and identity-verification effort that slow down every provider visit. Because of the nature of this data, MedPass is built to the tightest security and privacy standard, with HIPAA-grade handling by design, while giving providers a faster, cleaner onboarding.
The platform is live in demo: a patient web portal, a provider web portal and a patient mobile app with QR-based verification, deployed on Azure, with EHR integrations in place for Epic and three other major systems. The company is founder-led, moving toward its first provider pilots in the Tampa Bay area, with a pre-seed raise underway. A Chief Operating Officer is being appointed in parallel. This is a ground-floor role: you will take a working platform to production and make it scale.
The role The founder is a former CTO and architected the platform herself. She will remain the product visionary. What the company needs now is a Chief Technology Officer who owns the technology end to end: someone who reviews what has been built with fresh eyes, hardens it for scale and security, leads the development team, and sets the technical roadmap from the first pilot to many.
This is an architect's role first and a builder's second. The development team is offshore and experienced, and has been part of MedPass since it was an idea; the CTO leads that team rather than replacing it, and brings capability onshore only where the work requires it. Some hands-on work in the US is likely, particularly around production data and security. The role reports to the CEO and works closely with the incoming COO.
What you will own
● A full architectural review of the current platform in your first weeks, with a clear view of what is production-ready, what needs hardening, and what you would change.
● Hardening the platform for scalability and security: performance at scale, real-time communication, and the move from a prototype standard to a production standard.
● Data protection decisions, including when and how data is encrypted at rest and how the system is supported once it is. You will be the named technical owner for healthcare-data risk, and initially the only person with access to unencrypted production data.
● The EHR integrations: completing the implementations in progress, resolving the access constraints the offshore team faces, and making integration a repeatable capability.
● Leading the development team: setting priorities, standards and release discipline; deciding what sits offshore and what is hired onshore, starting with QA.
● The technology roadmap for scaling from one pilot site to several, tied to the company's financial plan, including the implications of a possible second market.
● Platform choices with an open mind: the current cloud platform is a decision to review, not a constraint.
● Technical readiness for scrutiny: the architecture, security and data documentation a hospital's review and an investor's due diligence will ask for, and a formal security review before pilot.
● Over time, full ownership of product scope, working with the CEO on vision alignment and increasingly with the COO on delivery.
What we are looking for
● Familiarity with EHR systems and healthcare integration. This is the critical requirement: it brings with it the HIPAA, interoperability and security understanding the platform depends on.
● An architect who has taken a platform into production in a regulated or data-sensitive environment, and has led a small or distributed engineering team, including offshore or contract capacity, to a standard.
● Strong security engineering judgement. You do not need to be a security specialist, but you need to know how to set the platform up correctly and to know what you do not know, so the right review happens at the right time.
● Hands-on capability in modern cloud architecture, with the judgement to decide what must be built now and what can wait.
● Comfort with ground-floor conditions: equity-minded, mission-driven, able to make progress without a large team or budget.
● A patient-safety and quality mindset: an error in this product is a clinical risk, not a bug.
● Servant leadership, integrity, accountability, transparency and clear communication. These are the values the company hires for.
What we offer
● A founding-team seat with ownership of technical direction and a voice in product scope from day one.
● Equity participation as the primary reward before the raise, structured with vesting, with cash compensation following the round. Co-founder status is open for the right candidate. Terms are set with the company's counsel.
● A founder with deep domain and technical credibility, an advisory bench across clinical, health-system and finance, a capable development team already in place, and a clear path to first pilots.
● US-based, remote-first, with Tampa Bay a plus. Start as soon as possible.