Co-Founder and CTO

Glutopia; Fremont (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Glutopia, based in California, is seeking a leadership team member who will drive strategies for the company's and product's future. The successful candidate should possess significant startup experience and a blend of product and software development expertise.

You will maintain and scale technologies, collaborate on crucial study designs, and keep up with advancements in diabetes therapeutics. This is a great opportunity to make an impact in the lives of people with diabetes.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in product development and software development.
• Experience in early-stage startups, from building to fundraising.
• Practical experience with software architecture.

Responsibilities

• Be part of the leadership team for company strategies.
• Maintain and scale existing technologies.
• Collaborate on study design for products.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Adaptability to new technologies

Job description

Glutopia is founded by people with a connection to diabetes. We are parents, spouses, children and co-workers who have seen first hand the daily life of a person with diabetes. People with diabetes make estimated 300 diabetes-related decisions a day. That’s more than 109,000 decisions per year. No wonder folks get burned out, tripped up, or just plain quit. We are committed to building a solution to help them get back to living their life.

Our mission is to simplify the decision making for people with diabetes. We would like to become the “diabetes whisperer”, quietly guiding you toward those day-to-day decisions such as what to eat, normal or light meal, when to go for a run, safe to drive, and more. The goal is to perform all nitty gritty calculations for you and help you make the choices with one click. Our vision is to help millions of people with diabetes maximize their blood glucose in range while freeing their brain to focus on the rest of their life.

Job Description

• Be part of the leadership team to decide on strategies for short term and long term needs of the company and product roadmap.
• Maintain and scale the existing technologies and build on it.
• Keep abreast of latest developments in science, medicine and ML as they relate to diabetes therapeutics.
• Collaborate on study design to feed into products.
• Align the company's technology resources with the organization's short- and long-term goals.

Qualifications

• Experience working in early stage startups - from building and scaling to going through fundraising.
• At least 3 years of experience of working at an intersection of Product development and Software development teams.
• Great communication and leadership skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• Practical experience with software architecture. Ability to start as an individual contributor and build an engineering team from ground-up.
• Experience working directly with front-end and back-end engineers.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and to learn new scientific and business concepts.

Useful to have:

• Experience with healthcare data especially time-series data.
• Experience fundraising with VCs, identifying collaborative opportunities with prospects, and defining projects with partners.

Additional Information

• Local or West coast-based candidates preferred.
• All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.