HistoWiz (YC W16) Is Looking for a CTO
HistoWiz is a Y Combinator (W16) and Zhenfund backed biotechnology company that automates histopathology for biomedical researchers in academia and the pharmaceutical industry. Its intelligent tissue platform facilitates collaboration between scientists and clinicians, and gives pathologists cutting edge tools to diagnose cases digitally, saving valuable time and resources. The company’s mission is to fight cancer cooperatively instead of individually.

We are the largest and fastest cloud histology company with a $2.5M revenue run rate and we are cash flow positive.

Our vision is to combine biology with computer science and bring cutting-edge technologies to biomedical researchers. Since our inception in 2013, we've acquired 1500+ paying customers from top academic institutions and pharmaceutical companies around the world, including Sloan Kettering, Cornell, Stanford, Harvard, Dana Farber, MD Anderson, HHMI, Janssen, Regeneron, Shire, Novo Nordisk.

We already have accumulated the world's largest annotated pathology database, PathologyMap, with access to a growing network of top pathologists for on-demand, online slide diagnosis. This database enables the application of machine learning in histology on an unprecedented scale. We recently won 1st place at Alibaba's world championship global startup contest.

The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) will be responsible for overseeing all technical aspects of the company.
The CTO will work closely with the CEO to develop the long-term tech vision of the company. The CTO is
responsible for managing the entire code base and will be the primary developer for the platform initially
(writing code 50% of time and building the team 50%).

Key requirements:
● 5 - 8 years of experience building scalable web applications from scratch
● Experience with AWS (CloudFormation, EC2, RDS...)
● Experience with Python web frameworks (Flask, Django, Bottle...)
● Experience with managing and scaling databases (MySQL, NoSQL…) and search (Elasticsearch…)
● HTML, CSS, Javascript, and front-end MVC frameworks (Ember.js, Angular.js...)
● Linux and dev ops (bash, git, continuous integration, automated testing) experience
● Experience managing a team of developers
● Living in or willing to relocate to NYC to work in person
● Interest in biotech and using computers to find a cure for cancer
● Advanced degree in computer science or technical field preferred
Prior experience with early stage startups, computer vision and machine learning is a plus.

We believe in investing in our employees’ professional development, and we encourage networking within
the software, tech, and startup communities for all of our employees and collaborators. We offer a tremendous growth opportunity,flexibility, and independence. We are seasoned scientists with experience at the world’s leading academic institutions, and have published high impact research in top journals of biomedicine such as Nature and Cell.

Compensation is top-notch and generous equity is available, commensurate with the impact you have within our organization. You can also expect excellent health and dental insurance, with 3 weeks PTO.

If interested, please email a resume to ke@histowiz.com. For expedited consideration, include a link to
sample code. This could be something personal or contributions to a library preferably written in Python and hosted on Github.