Founding Engineer/Architect (Stealth Healthcare Startup)

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies. They are seeking a Founding Engineer to partner with the founder in building a women's health intelligence platform, focusing on developing the core product and ensuring compliance with health data regulations.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with our founder to design and build Version 1 of the health intelligence platform
• Build the backend infrastructure, APIs, and data models that power personalized health insights
• Create robust ETL pipelines to ingest data from diverse sources: lab providers (Quest, LabCorp), wearables (Oura, Apple Health, Whoop, Garmin), medical records, and user-entered data
• Implement the conversational AI health check-ins, treatment recommendation engine, and predictive models that surface insights and guide users through their health journey
• Build with HIPAA compliance from day one
• Implement encryption, access controls, audit logging, and security best practices for handling sensitive health data
• Use Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, and other AI-assisted development tools to accelerate building
• Mentor and guide additional engineers as we scale
• Help establish engineering culture, practices, and standards

Requirements:

• 10+ years of software engineering experience, with a track record of building and shipping complex products. You've worked across the stack and can own technical decisions end-to-end
• Strong backend and infrastructure expertise. Deep experience with system architecture, APIs, databases, and building scalable, reliable systems. Comfortable with Python, Node.js, or similar
• Experience with health data and integrations. You've worked with lab data, EHR systems, wearable APIs, or healthcare interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR). You understand the complexity of health data
• Data pipeline and ETL experience. You've built pipelines that ingest, transform, and normalize data from multiple sources. Experience with healthcare data integration is a strong plus
• Cloud infrastructure proficiency. Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure. You can architect and deploy secure, compliant infrastructure
• AI/ML implementation experience. You've built products that leverage AI—whether recommendation systems, NLP, conversational AI, or predictive models. Experience with LLMs and prompt engineering is valuable
• Security and compliance mindset. You understand HIPAA requirements and can build systems that protect sensitive health data from the start
• Comfortable with AI-native development workflows. You use Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub, or similar tools to accelerate your work
• Preference on experience with Python and Typescript. Experience with Cloud platforms like AWS, JCP, etc
• Experience in healthcare technology and an understanding of technology health data privacy regulations (HIPAA, state telemedicine laws)
• Startup mentality. You've thrived in early-stage environments where you wear many hats, move fast, and take ownership. You're energized by ambiguity and building from zero to one
• Passion for the mission. You care about building technology that improves women's health outcomes. You're motivated by the impact this product can have on real people's lives
• Experience building consumer health or clinical products
• Familiarity with lab data standards (LOINC codes) and medical terminology
• Experience with wearable device integrations (Oura, Apple HealthKit, Whoop, Garmin)
• Background in building conversational AI or chatbot experiences
• Experience with mobile development (React Native, Flutter) or mobile-first web apps
• Previous founding engineer or technical co-founder experience