VP Engineering, CTO Track | Pediatric Therapy SaaS | Remote US

Every day, pediatric physical, occupational, and speech therapists change children’s lives—but their legacy software makes the job harder than it should be. Join a profitable, PE-backed healthcare SaaS company at the inflection point: our client has passionate customers, strong cash flow, and a mandate to rebuild the tech stack for the next decade. As their first full-time VP of Engineering with a clear path to CTO, you’ll lead that transformation end-to-end—shipping modern .NET services, an accessible React front-end, HIPAA-grade cloud infrastructure, and AI-powered clinical features that free clinicians to focus on kids, not clicks.

Opportunity

• Lead the ground-up modernization of a mission-critical EHR and billing platform used by pediatric therapy practices nationwide.
• Own the multi-year technology vision while remaining hands-on—perfect for a director-level leader ready for the top seat.
• Work directly with a product-savvy CEO and seasoned designer; inherit two eager engineers who know the codebase cold and are hungry for mentorship.
• Shape engineering culture, hiring roadmap, and best practices from Day 1 in a high-trust, low-bureaucracy environment.
• Build HIPAA-compliant AI features (ambient documentation, treatment-plan recommendations, predictive scheduling) that clinicians will love—and competitors will chase.

What You Will Own

Technology Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and socialize a phased modernization plan aligned to product, clinical, and business goals.
• Advise the CEO and Board on architecture, AI adoption, and cloud investment decisions.

Modernization & New Product Delivery

• Upgrade the legacy .NET monolith to modern .NET 8/9+ and introduce cloud-native patterns without disrupting active clinical workflows.
• Replace embedded Bootstrap pages with a WCAG 2.1 AA-compliant React, Vue, or Angular front-end.
• Launch companion mobile apps that improve clinician usability and patient workflow efficiency.
• Decompose services over time and move toward a multi-tenant architecture as scale demands.

Security, Compliance & DevOps

• Own HIPAA Security Rule posture, drive SOC 2 Type II readiness, and build a security-first engineering culture.
• Stand up CI/CD, IaC, observability, and disaster-recovery pipelines across AWS, Azure, or GCP with support from an MSP.

Data & AI Platform

• Architect a data lake/warehouse that integrates clinical, billing, and operational data.
• Enable self-serve BI, ML pipelines, and responsible use of AI across the product and engineering organization.
• Deliver clinician-facing AI features and developer AI tooling while meeting privacy, safety, and compliance standards.

Team Leadership & External Representation

• Mentor and grow the existing engineers into a high-performing team.
• Recruit additional technical talent as needed to support the modernization roadmap.
• Represent technology with enterprise customers, partners, auditors, and other external stakeholders.

What Makes You a Strong Fit

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including 4+ years leading teams as Director, Sr. Manager, or equivalent.
• Hands-on mastery of the Microsoft .NET ecosystem and a successful track record modernizing legacy .NET systems.
• Proven experience architecting and shipping large-scale JavaScript/TypeScript front-ends (React, Vue, or Angular).
• Deep familiarity with HIPAA-regulated environments and healthcare data standards (HL7 FHIR, X12, etc.).
• Cloud and DevOps depth with AWS, Azure, or GCP—IaC, containers, CI/CD, monitoring.
• Demonstrated success delivering AI/ML capabilities in production SaaS products.
• Player/coach leadership style: you still code, review PRs, and set architectural guardrails while empowering others.
• Excellent collaboration skills across product, design, clinical, and commercial teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with pediatric therapy, EHR/EMR, or revenue-cycle software.
• Ownership of SOC 2 Type II audits, ambient clinical NLP, or PE-backed scale-ups.

Location & Travel

• Remote within the United States.
• Ability to spend significant time in Orlando during the first 6–12 months, then ~20 % travel to Orlando and/or Philadelphia thereafter.

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