Technical Lead

Fertally is a clinical software platform in fertility care, going through EUMDR Class IIa conformity assessment as software as a medical device.We are preparing to launch our pilot clinic trials this year. We need aTechnical Lead to take over the codebase, the release discipline and theengineering culture from the founder, who has built it to this point.
This is a ground-floor role in something that is about to grow. The salary isnominal until our next round of funding, and we would rather say that plainly thandress it up.
There is a salary. It is not yet the salary the role deserves.
If you want to be the person who took a medical device from pre-CE to CE Markand beyond, and to own that outcome from the start, this is something youmight want to read.
What you would be joining.
Fertally is a full web application, also shipped as a native app, built as a clinicalplatform for patients and their clinicians. It is EU-hosted, and data sovereignty is a founding principle for us, not a feature. It is built under a Class IIa qualitysystem from day one, and it already has real users and real clinics.
We are a small team of founders: a CEO who is technical and built the platformto this point, a COO, and a Clinical Lead, with a set of advisors around us. Pre-seed funding from Enterprise Ireland is secured.
What you will own.
This is a hands-on role. You will write code most days. You will also be theperson the rest of the company relies on for every technical decision.
RELEASE AND QUALITY
Own the deploy pipeline, the checks that run on every release, and the rule that nothing that is live ever regresses
Own the test strategy, including the technical roadmap in place
Turn the current founder-led release discipline into something a team can run independently
REGULATORY ENGINEERING
Work with the team regularly, and with third-party contractors as necessary,on software lifecycle evidence, quality system records, risk files and data-protection assessments
Understand that Class IIa, GDPR and EU-only hosting are not trade-offs. They are constraints that never move.
THE TEAM
Help hire and lead the first engineers after you
Set the standards: quality, scalability and security considered in every piece of work, from the first line
Be intrinsic to building the robust architecture Fertally runs on
What we are looking for.
You do not need to tick every box. You do need to be honest about which ones you tick.
MUST HAVE
Three or more years building and shipping production software, with at least two years leading the technical direction of a product or team
Full-stack competent: comfortable owning both backend and frontend workend to end, not specialised in only one
Real production experience with relational databases, including migrations on live data
Cloud infrastructure ownership: services, databases, access control, secrets, logging
A deep understanding of machine learning and predictive algorithms.This matters a great deal to us: the intelligence in the platform is the product
Creative use of programming. You adapt code to what the product actually needs, think outside the box, and are not limited to what you learned in college
Comfortable working with AI coding assistants as part of how you build. We use them a lot, under strict review
A track record of fixing the root cause rather than the symptom, and of saying"I don't know yet" when that is the truth
You care about moving fertility care and women's health forward through your work. The people using this platform are in some of the hardest momentsof their lives, and that has to matter to you
Eligible to work in Ireland
STRONGLY PREFERRED
Experience in a regulated environment: medical devices, health data, fintech,or anything with an auditor
Mobile experience shipping a web application as a native app
GDPR literacy at the engineering level: data partitioning, right of access and erasure, consent scoping
NOT REQUIRED, BUT NICE
An interest in fertility or women's healthWe will teach you the domain.
Curiosity and respect for the patients whose data you are handling are required.
UX and design awareness
Interest in data analysis
How we work.
The founder is currently the technical lead and has built the platform with AI coding assistants under strict review.
You will inherit both the codebase and that way of working, and you will be expected to make it better.
No invented bugs, no silent queueing of work, no "it's deployed" when it is only merged.
Patient surfaces are emotional space. We never streak-shame, never use urgency tactics, and never imply the algorithm knows better than the person logging their own body.
Compensation.
SALARY
Nominal now. It increases with our next round of investment.
Email us and we will tell you the current figure straight away.
EQUITY
Options are there for the right person, and scale with seniority
Someone who steps in at CTO level sees a materially larger allocation than an early-career hire. What they look like depends on the role you take on, your experience and your commitment, and we talk about them openly at offer stage.
TIMING
You join before the growth, not after it. The seat, the scopeand the story are yours from the first day.
HOLIDAYS
30 days off a year - 20 days annual leave plus Ireland's 10 public holidays.
BALANCE
We are a startup, and that cuts both ways. Life balance matters to us, and the working week is flexible. If you work better in the evening some days, that is fine. A few fixed meetings a week are agreed in advance, and outside of those there is a lot of freedom in how you shape your days.
WORKING
Remote within Ireland, with occasional in-person meetings.Laptop, tooling and conference budget as needed.
What this leads to.
You would be the first technical hire in a medtech company at the moment it moves from build to launch. When Fertally succeeds, you will have been the engineer who carried a Class IIa device through CE Mark, built the team around it, and set the standard for how the platform was made. Those are not things you can add to a CV by joining later.
How to apply.
Send a short note and a link to something you have built or led tocareers@fertally.com. Then answer one question in under 250 words: what is one feature Fertally does not have that you think it needs, and how would you build it?
We will reply to everyone who applies.
Apply here: https://www.fertally.com/careers

Work arrangement
Yes