As a Founding Product Engineer at Healthtech-1, you will define and build AI-powered clinical workflows that automate primary care’s most painful tasks. Working directly with the founders, you’ll ship end-to-end features using React and TypeScript, impacting millions. You will spend time embedded in GP surgeries, ensuring your technical decisions solve real-world healthcare challenges at a national scale.
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Founding Product Engineer at Healthtech-1
Join Healthtech-1, the YC S23-backed startup building the AI-powered 'front door' of the NHS. As a Founding Product Engineer, you'll work alongside ex-Monzo and NHS founders to automate clinical workflows already used by 26% of England's GP surgeries. This is a rare chance to shape product direction at a top-tier growth startup while earning £90k-£130k plus founding-team equity.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
£90k-£130k + Equity
Company
Healthtech-1
Role overview
Healthcare Software
Healthtech 1 Ltd is a UK-based startup specializing in automating administrative tasks within the UK’s primary care sector, focusing on the National Health Service (NHS). Their mission is to automate repetitive, manual processes for healthcare systems, beginning with the NHS, to increase efficiency and reduce administrative burden for healthcare staff. Their solutions include Automated Registrations, Automated Lab Filing, and Automated GP2GP Filing, which have collectively saved significant NHS staff time and improved operational efficiency at GP practices across England. As of 2025, Healthtech 1 automates processes for a large share of GP practices and continues to expand its offerings to improve access to primary care.
What you will do
- Build and ship full-stack features using React, TypeScript, and AI/LLM integrations to automate complex patient registration and appointment navigation workflows.
- Collaborate directly with the founders to define the product roadmap, moving from research to delivery in focused eight-week growth cycles.
- Work four days a week from a GP surgery in Stratford, embedding yourself with NHS receptionists to understand and solve frontline healthcare friction.
Who this is a fit for
- Brings 5+ years of engineering experience with strong React and TypeScript skills, ideally having served as a founding or early engineer in a fast-paced startup.
- Thrives in high-ambiguity environments and cares deeply about user experience, product design, and building robust architecture without a predefined roadmap.
- Possesses experience or a strong interest in AI/LLM integration and a desire to do their life’s best work by solving the UK’s healthcare access crisis.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a YC S23 startup that was ranked as the 8th fastest growing in the UK, building the infrastructure for how 60 million people access healthcare.
- Work alongside high-pedigree founders, including an ex-Monzo engineer and an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur, in an environment that prioritizes radical transparency and high trust.
- Experience true founding-level ownership where you define product direction and strategy rather than just following specs, with a direct line to users and strategic outcomes.
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