Mario Michaels Most healthtech CTOs aren't struggling to find engineers. They're struggling to find the right ones before the wrong ones cost them a quarter. I've spent over a decade inside technical recruitment. The last few years exclusively in healthtech — placing software engineers, AI specialists, and senior technical leaders into pre-seed through Series C companies across the UK, US, and EMEA. I built Synaxia Group because I kept watching the same thing happen. Founders and CTOs would brief three generalist recruiters, wait three months, and get a pipeline of CVs that looked right on paper but weren't even close in practice. One client came to me after doing exactly that for a Staff Engineer role. Three recruiters. Three months. Nothing placed. We filled it. The real cost of a slow or wrong engineering hire in healthtech isn't just the salary. It's the roadmap that slips. The fundraising milestone that moves. The founding team that starts to fracture under the pressure of building without the right people. One client reduced their time to hire from 9 weeks to 10 days. I work differently. I'm a hiring partner, not a vendor. I advise on compensation benchmarks, team structure, and market avai
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