HistoWiz is a Y Combinator (W16) and Zhenfund backed biotech company that automates histology and is building an intelligent tissue platform for cancer researchers. Our mission is to fight cancer cooperatively instead of individually by connecting scientists, doctors and patients for online collaboration. We are the largest and fastest cloud histology company with a $2.5M revenue run rate and are cash flow positive.
Our vision is to combine biology with computer science and bring cutting-edge technologies to biomedical researchers. Since inception in 2013, we have 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 have accumulated the world's largest annotated pathology database, PathologyMap, with access to a growing network of top pathologists. This database enables the application of machine learning in histology on an unprecedented scale. We recently won world championship at the Alibaba global startup contest.
The Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is 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, data mining, statistics, 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. Health and dental
insurance, 3 weeks paid time off & paid company holidays.
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.
