Join the Partnerships Squad to build clinically safe AI tools used by UK GP surgeries and the London Ambulance Service. You will develop user-facing features, partner SDKs, and scalable infrastructure to automate documentation. This role is pivotal in reducing clinical burnout and improving patient safety through advanced speech-to-text and LLM integrations.
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Full-stack Engineer at Tortus
TORTUS is on a mission to eliminate human error in medicine by providing clinicians with safe, reliable AI documentation tools. Having recently scaled across UK GP surgeries and the London Ambulance Service, they are looking for a product-minded Full-stack Engineer to join their Partnerships Squad in London. With a unique 9-day fortnight, equity, and the chance to work with cutting-edge LLM applications in a high-stakes environment, this is a rare opportunity to transform healthcare delivery while working in a high-growth, mission-driven engineering team.
About this role
Role overview
About the company
TORTUS is a UK based start-up, founded by an NHS doctor, which builds AI assistants for doctors. We sell exclusively to enterprises - hospitals and reseller distributions. Our key USPs are safety, security, simplicity and sovereignty. We present ourselves as a scientific enterprise, the first Class I and soon to be Class II medical device in our category, and take an approach of partnership and risk management. Our values are patient first, be kind, stay curious, kick ass - we are always raising the bar for AI in healthcare and have published peer reviewed research to this effect
Backed by Khosla Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Lord David Prior.
What you'll do
What you will do
- Design and ship high-impact features using React, TypeScript, and NestJS that measurably reduce documentation time for clinicians.
- Build and extend partner-facing SDKs and healthcare integrations using FHIR and HL7 standards to scale TORTUS across new organisations.
- Manage production infrastructure on GCP and GKE using Terraform and ArgoCD to ensure system reliability and clinical safety.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Has 5+ years of full-stack experience with frontend excellence in React/TypeScript and backend proficiency in Node.js or Python.
- Possesses strong product instincts and the ability to turn direct user feedback from clinicians into elegant, production-ready solutions.
- Demonstrates experience with Kubernetes, IaC, and ideally complex regulated domains like healthcare integrations or EHR systems.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Work on a mission-critical product that has seen explosive growth in 2025 across the UK's NHS and emergency services.
- Enjoy a unique 9-day fortnight work schedule (every other Friday off) and an office-first culture in the historic Holborn Town Hall.
- Impact healthcare directly by building technology that helps clinicians care for millions of patients while eliminating human error.
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