Chief Technology Officer

Health Payment Systems, Inc / PayMedix

$230K — $265K *
Healthcare
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience leading technology teams with direct management of internal engineering teams and external vendors.
  • Proven track record in building and scaling engineering teams and products in high-growth environments.
  • Experience in health tech, fintech, or data-intensive sectors with a focus on payments and security compliance.
  • Deep familiarity with payment orchestration and infrastructure in the payments ecosystem is highly preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to cultivate innovation and embed AI-driven capabilities in business workflows.

Responsibilities

  • Own end-to-end delivery across internal tech teams and external vendors, ensuring high-quality output.
  • Lead evolution of platform architecture for modularity and long-term growth support.
  • Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization focusing on accountability and outcomes.
  • Oversee integrations and data pipelines for reliability and scalability of systems.
  • Ensure systems meet security and compliance standards including HIPAA and SOC 2 requirements.
  • Define and lead the AI roadmap to enhance operational efficiency and customer experience.
  • Act as a strategic partner to leadership, establishing clear technology direction and urgency in initiatives.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Health Savings Account (HSA) with company contributions.
  • 401(k) and Roth retirement plans with company match.
  • Unlimited paid time off (PTO).
  • Equity offered in the company.
Full Job Description
About the Role We are hiring a Chief Technology Officer to lead and scale our technology organization during a pivotal phase of growth. You'll be joining a company that has already surpassed $20M in annual revenue and is on a clear trajectory to exceed $50M in annual revenue over the next few years. This is an opportunity to join a business with real traction and significant growth momentum. You will own execution across our core technology platform, including payments infrastructure, data systems, and internal tools, with a focus on improving velocity, reliability, and scalability. We are looking for a product-minded technology leader who thinks beyond systems and infrastructure, and understands how technology decisions directly impact customer experience, revenue growth, and long-term market differentiation. We value a builder mentality and at this stage of the company, success will come from a leader who knows how to scale from 1 to 10 by operationalizing and maturing products for growth, reliability, and scale. You should bring new ideas and a forward-looking perspective, including the ability to evaluate and introduce AI and other emerging technologies where they drive real business value. You will help guide how the company evolves as technology advances, balancing innovation with practical execution. This is a hands-on role for a leader who can operate across architecture and delivery, drive execution in complex environments, and build structure and momentum across teams. This role reports directly to the CEO and operates in a remote work environment. Primary Responsibilities Engineering Execution & Delivery: Own end-to-end delivery across internal tech teams and external development vendors, driving consistent sprint execution, predictable releases, and high-quality output. Platform & Architecture: Lead the evolution of platform architecture to support scale, ensuring systems are modular, maintainable, and built for long-term growth. Team Building & Leadership: Build and lead a high-performing engineering organization with clear ownership, strong accountability, and a focus on outcomes. Data, Integrations & Infrastructure: Oversee integrations, data pipelines, and infrastructure to ensure reliability, scalability, and seamless support of internal and external systems. Security & Compliance: Ensure systems meet healthcare, financial, and enterprise security standards, including HIPAA, HITRUST, SOC 2, and other relevant regulatory and audit requirements, while maintaining strong data integrity, privacy, and security practices. AI Innovation,Transformation& Safety: Define and lead the AI roadmap, identifying high-impact opportunities and driving practical, scalable adoption that improves operational efficiency, customer experience, and business performance. Technical Strategy & Thought Leadership: Act as a strategic partner to leadership, setting clear technology direction and pushing initiatives forward with urgency, ownership, and a bias for action. Refactoring, Replatforming, Rebuilding: Lead the migration from legacy systems to modern, flexible, scalable, and resilient operating environments, including evaluation and replacement of existing vendors, data migration, system cutovers, and parallel run strategies, ensuring continuity across critical operations and minimizing risk to the business. The current technology environment includes Two On-Prem-Vendor-Hosted/Managed redundant data centers, Microsoft Azure for cloud infrastructure and hosting, .NET / C# powering core backend services, and React across the frontend application layer. Required Qualifications 10+ years leading technology teams, including direct management of internal engineering teams and oversight of external development vendors or partners. Proven track record building and scaling engineering teams, products, and platforms from 0 to 1 and 1 to 10 in high-growth entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial environments, turning early-stage products into secure, reliable, high-volume production systems. Experience leading technology in health tech, fintech with a focus on payments, or other data-intensive environments where platform reliability, security, compliance, and data integrity are core to the business. Deep familiarity with payment orchestration, ledgering systems, money movement infrastructure, and leading vendors within the payments ecosystem is highly preferred. Key Attributes for Success Cultivates Innovation: Drive innovation by building scalable systems and embedding AI-driven capabilities into core business workflows to accelerate growth, efficiency, and competitive advantage. Cross-Functional Team Collaboration: Drive alignment and collaboration across Product, Engineering, and Operations by translating complex technical work into business outcomes, while exercising strong judgment and building trust with stakeholders. Build & Lead High-Performing Teams: Ability to build, lead, and manage high-performing internal and external development teams, attract top technical talent as the company scales, and make thoughtful decisions on performance, retention, and team composition while fostering ownership and growth. Business-Minded Product Leadership: Demonstrates the ability to think beyond engineering execution and infrastructure, and deeply understands how technology, product decisions, and platform investments translate into better customer experiences, stronger revenue outcomes, and sustainable market differentiation. Other Important Details Compensation: Base salary range: $230,000 - $265,000, depending on experience Equity: Offered Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA with company contribution,401(k)/Roth with company match, unlimited PTO and more. Hybrid Work: This is a remote position with travel as needed. This role is primarily performed in a professional office environment and typically involves working at a desk using a computer, phone, and other standard office equipment. The position requires regular communication with colleagues and stakeholders through phone, video, and written channels, as well as the ability to perform work using a computer. The role may also involve occasional movement around the office. Additional hours may occasionally be required to support key projects or business needs.

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