Chief Technology Officer, Caspar Health
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Digital rehabilitation platform and clinic
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Digital rehabilitation platform and clinic
101-200 employees
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101-200 employees
Company mission
To ensure lasting therapeutic success through recognised, clinically evaluated digital rehabilitation solutions.
Role
Who you are
- You have managed multiple Engineering leaders and led a multi-team organization through a meaningful scale or rigor transition
- You have owned technology strategy, budget, capacity and build, buy or outsource decisions at executive level, with evidence of their impact
- You have led Engineering in regulated, security-critical or high-availability systems. Medical-device or digital-health experience is a plus, not a prerequisite
- You have built and scaled cloud-SaaS products, ideally in a regulated environment. Health-tech or medical-device experience is a plus, not a prerequisite
- You also bring broad systems depth across backend services, web and mobile clients, APIs and integrations, data flows, observability, security and operations. Our exact stack is not a hard filter
- You currently work hands-on with agentic development workflows and can show how you used, constrained or rejected AI output and made it scale
- You have shipped products that achieved meaningful customer and business outcomes and bring product judgement and pace, not only engineering rigor. You can challenge Product constructively, make business and technical trade-offs explicit and protect credible commitments under pressure
- You build trust with teams, customers, partners, auditors, investors and boards without acting as a rescuer or creating dependence on yourself
- You are business-fluent in German and English
- A university degree or fixed number of years is not required. We care about demonstrated impact, judgement and responsibility you have personally carried
What the job involves
- Translate company and product strategy into a technology strategy with clear capabilities, investments, risks and measurable 18-month proof points
- Lead all Engineering teams and Engineering leads, including Platform, Infrastructure, DevOps/SRE, developer experience and Engineering-owned quality automation
- Build a strong leadership layer, clear domain ownership, distributed knowledge and resilient internal and external capacity without single-person dependencies
- Own architecture, technology choices, reliability, security implementation, technical evidence and reporting, and regulated development for critical clinic and hospital workflows
- Keep Caspar ready for deep technical scrutiny with current architecture and ownership evidence, demonstrable Caspar IP ownership, auditable security and compliance evidence, a credible AI story and no critical single-person dependencies
- Own the incident system and lead major or trust-critical escalations. You are not the standing first-line on-call engineer. Ensure postmortem actions are completed and verified
- Plan the Engineering budget and capacity. Decide within the approved envelope on technology, vendors and build, buy or outsource options, including lifecycle cost and continuity
- Shape AI-enabled Engineering through current personal practice. Create measurable leverage without weakening security, maintainability, review quality, traceability or regulated assurance
- Make credible commitments with Product. Product owns outcomes and scope intent. You own technical feasibility, capacity and release readiness, and stop unsupported or unsafe commitments
- Involve Medical, Quality, Information Security, Privacy and Legal early. Engineering turns requirements into reusable controls, tests and evidence. Independent functions retain review, stop and risk-acceptance rights
- Establish clear data contracts with Data. Technology owns production and operational data systems. Data owns semantics, certified analytical datasets, metric governance, analytical quality, experimentation and decision science
- Represent Caspar in high-stakes technical discussions with clinics, hospital IT, integration partners, auditors, investors and the board
- What success looks like:
- In your first year, you will:
- Build a strong Engineering leadership layer and accountable ownership for critical systems
- Connect technology choices and investment to company strategy and reviewable proof points, then complete a deep external technical review at customer, auditor or investor standard with no unresolved material findings
- Improve delivery predictability, release quality, resilience and regulated evidence
- Make cooperation between Engineering, Infrastructure and independent Security durable and effective
- Create measurable impact through AI-enabled Engineering without weakening security or quality
Our take
The digital healthcare market is one of the fastest-growing on the planet, and is expected to be worth over $400 billion by 2027. With key drivers including increasing use of mobile platforms, rapidly changing healthcare infrastructure and government initiatives across the globe, this is a market blossoming with opportunity.
Caspar Health is looking to make the most of this. Founded in 2016, the platform enables recovering patients to access rehabilitation services on-demand, such as physiotherapy, sports therapy and even psychosomatic medicine. Setting out to solve the traditional problems with aftercare - things like specialist shortages and location constraints - Caspar Health looks like a highly disruptive prospect.
The company's impressive early metrics - including one bi-annual growth figure topping 300% - have garnered massive investor interest. Using funding won across multiple rounds, Caspar Health wants to expand its existing set of clinical partners, with a goal of supporting all rehabilitation clinics throughout Germany. In the future, its ambitions may go much further.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2021
$10.1m
SERIES B
Jan 2020
$6m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $18.3m
Company benefits
- Permanent employment contract
- Initiatives on diversity and inclusion, plus a common reflection room on our work culture
- Open feedback culture to learn and grow together
- Flexible working hours, mobile working and various models for part-time work
- Individual annual training budget
- Generous remote policy, plus take advantage of our health app with mental health-, exercise -, and nutrition modules for free
- Fresh fruit and a variety of healthy snacks and drinks in the office
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Max Michels
(Co-Founder & Managing Director)Ex-CEO of Michels Hotels and ex-MD at Sachsenklinik.
Max von Waldenfels
(Co-Founder)Ex-CEO of Food Express and co-founder of pluspeter.com.
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