Founding CTO

Savoy Life

About The Position

Savoy Life is a distributed senior living platform focused on bridging the gap between senior living communities and healthcare. With a team of specialized clinicians, including nurses and geriatricians, Savoy Life offers a tech-enabled solution that empowers senior living operators to do their jobs more effectively and efficiently so they can move residents into their communities faster and keep them healthier for longer. What You’ll Do Build Savoy Life’s Technology Platform from the Ground Up Partner directly with our CEO and COO to design, architect, and build the technical foundation that powers Savoy Life’s caregiving‑first model. You will own the creation of our data infrastructure, intelligence layer, and early products that unify caregiving and clinical data—enabling risk stratification, clinical decision support, and scalable continuous care. Your work will transform today’s human‑intensive process into a proprietary, tech‑enabled platform that can serve seniors everywhere, not just in senior living facilities. Lead AI/ML‑Driven Capabilities Implement and own the technical strategy for AI‑enabled clinical signals, early‑risk detection, sentiment analysis, and proactive care workflows. Leverage LLMs to power both conversational, virtual rounding, and structured clinical summaries. Use AI‑native tools (Copilot, Cursor, Claude, GitHub tools, agents) to accelerate prototyping and development velocity. Develop Healthcare‑Grade Data Integration Pipelines Create our data infrastructure, automated AI/BI driven insights, and BI querying Build and scale ETL pipelines that ingest data from QHIN data, HIEs, internal Savoy tools and potentially beyond. Ensure data integrity and traceability across a wide variety of structured and unstructured inputs. Own Security, Compliance & Reliability Build Savoy’s platform with HIPAA compliance and senior‑care regulatory needs from day one. Implement secure data storage, encryption, auditing, access control, and monitoring frameworks. Establish and enforce best practices for uptime, reliability, and operational readiness. Create and Scale the Engineering Organization After building the first versions of our product, you’ll recruit, mentor, and develop engineers as the organization scales. Establish engineering culture, SDLC practices, architectural standards, and performance expectations.

Requirements

10+ years of engineering experience with a strong track record of building and shipping complex, high‑impact products.
Experience designing and scaling backend systems, cloud infrastructure, APIs, and data platforms.
Comfortable owning technical architecture end‑to-end in a fast‑moving startup setting.
Expertise in database design, distributed systems, and event‑driven architectures.
Hands‑on experience deploying secure, scalable systems on AWS/Azure/GCP.
Experience with clinical data structures (EHR, care notes, vitals, symptoms), healthcare integration standards (FHIR/HL7), or related domains.
Understanding of HIPAA, PHI handling, and the nuances of clinical workflows.
Experience using LLMs to build production features (NLP, summarization, conversational AI, risk prediction, or agent frameworks).
Comfortable with prompt engineering, model selection, and grounding strategies.
Deep understanding of secure system design, encryption standards, access control models, auditability, and threat modeling.
Experience building systems for regulated industries is a strong plus.
Thrives in ambiguity, moves with urgency, and brings an ownership mentality.
Excited to build v0 → v1 → scale while wearing multiple hats.
Motivated by delivering better healthcare outcomes for seniors and their families.