Chief Technology Officer (all identities)

Caspar Health is entering its next growth phase. Our digital care is becoming increasingly critical to clinic and hospital operations. At the same time, we are progressing towards medical-device obligations and expanding AI-enabled ways of working.

As CTO, you will own Technology and Engineering at C-level. You will report to the CEO, lead Engineering with full functional and disciplinary responsibility and work as a peer to the CPO.

Your job is not to become the bottleneck or Caspar's most important individual technologist. You will build a strong leadership layer and an Engineering system that moves quickly with security, resilience and evidence. You will stay close enough to technology to judge important decisions, risks and AI-enabled development through current practice.

This position is based in Germany and must be performed, living in Germany. Due to our current payroll and social security arrangements, we cannot offer permanent employment from abroad. Applicants must therefore be able to perform their duties from Germany starting on their first day of work and must already have the necessary authorization to work in Germany.

• 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

• 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.

• A genuine C-level mandate with ownership of Engineering and company technology strategy.

• The opportunity to combine speed and rigor for digital clinical workflows and make a tangible difference to care.

• A clear Product-Technology peer model with shared decisions instead of hidden hand-offs.

• Remote-first within Germany with flexible working hours. Regular in-person leadership in Berlin is part of the role. There is no fixed weekly office quota. You will spend time with clinics, partners and at important meetings when useful.

• A virtual equity package (VSOP) with meaningful participation in the company's value growth, plus 30 vacation days, a home-office allowance, meal subsidy and a budget for learning, conferences and coaching.

• High level of ownership and decision-making freedom – no micromanagement. We hire experts who know what they’re doing. #MakeAnImpact!

• Genuine collaboration – no silos, no egos. After all, we’re all working toward the same vision. #ValueFocus!

• Access to all Caspar offerings for mental and physical well-being #HealthyTogether!

• And yes – all the snacks your heart desires, group sports sessions, a never-empty drinks fridge, and a healthy dose of humor are included too

Dana Kussatz; People Business Partner TECH

Please submit your application online. We are also interested in knowing your earliest possible start date and your salary expectations. If you have further questions please reach out to talent@caspar-health.com. We will get in touch with you as soon as we can.

Our product CASPAR Health is used in the environment of medical institutions, patients, doctors and therapists. Working with (sensitive) personal data (e.g. health data) is part of our daily work. Therefore, we require a high level of commitment to the protection of personal data from our employees in order to protect the rights of the data subjects as best as possible.

Diversity and Inclusion:

At Caspar Health, we strive to provide a friendly, safe and welcoming environment for all Casparians* regardless of ethnic origin, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, limitations of any kind, physical appearance, social background, age or religion (or lack thereof).

When you apply, we purely focus on your experience and motivation. You decide what additional information you want to disclose (picture, marital status, religion, gender, nationality, etc). We value and treat all applications equally.

We are looking forward to getting to know you!

Data privacy notice:

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