Job Description

This is a founding engineering role with a genuine path to CTO. Our Client have an interim CTO transitioning to advisory, and two engineers already shipping on the voice pipeline and data platform.

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About the Role

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You'll own the technical direction — architecture, stack, and the decisions that shape how the products scale. As the team grows, you'll lead it. We're looking for someone who wants that responsibility and is ready for it.

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Responsibilities

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- Own the technical direction.
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- Make architecture choices, vendor selection, and build-versus-buy decisions.
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- Work with an advisory board with deep technical and health sector expertise.
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- Form views, articulate tradeoffs, and move with conviction once decisions are made.
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Qualifications

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- Led an engineering team — hired, managed, and set technical standards.
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- 5+ years full-stack — production Next.js, React, and TypeScript.
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- Strong frontend instinct — you care about how things look and feel, not just whether they work.
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- TypeScript at depth — typed schemas, generated types from DB, no any in production.
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- Supabase or equivalent — schema design, RLS, multi-tenant auth done correctly.
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- AI-native — LLMs, RAG, embeddings, prompt engineering in production systems.
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- Shipped consumer products — real people use them today.
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- High autonomy, low process — you find the work, define the problem, ship the solution.
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Required Skills

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- Design taste — can ship polished UI without a designer. Our users are elderly and their family carers; the product needs to feel trustworthy, not just functional.
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- React Native / Expo — mobile starts Month 3, and you'll lead it.
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- Voice AI or conversational AI in production.
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- Health tech, regulated industry, or privacy-sensitive data at scale.
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- AI-assisted development workflow (Claude Code, Cursor) — we use this heavily.
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Preferred Skills

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- Can write a technical strategy memo and present to a non-technical founder.
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- Thinks about the engineering organisation you'd build, not just the code you'd write.
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Pay range and compensation package

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- Salary: Competitive · Discussed at offer based on experience.
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- Equity: Available for this role — you are a key part of the founding team. Structure and quantum discussed at offer.
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- Ownership: Full technical function. No one above you in engineering. You set the standards, make the calls, hire the team.
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- Trajectory: Engineering lead → CTO. Interim CTO transitions to advisory within months. The path is real and near‐term.
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- Mission: Your product reaches elderly Australians who live alone, and the family members carrying the weight of their care. Every day.
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- Tools: AI-assisted development is first-class here — Claude Code, Cursor, whatever works. We don't pretend it doesn't exist.
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Equal Chance Statement

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We are committed to diversity and inclusivity.

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📌 Full Stack Engineer - CTO Path (Victoria)
🏢 StarPlan
📍 Victoria