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Founding Engineer at ThinkDivergent
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Compensation
- £70k-£80k + Equity
Join a profitable healthtech startup as their first Founding Engineer to build the operating system for neurodevelopmental care. With live NHS contracts and real revenue, this isn't just a concept—it's a scaling system helping ADHD and autism patients bypass 5-year wait times.
You'll work directly with the CTO in an AI-first environment (Cursor/Claude) to ship production-grade software that replaces fragmented manual processes with intelligent workflows. If you have a natural instinct for frontend design, a high-agency mindset, and want to own the technical roadmap of a category-defining company, this is your opportunity to make a massive impact on healthcare infrastructure.
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Role overview
As the first engineering hire, you will build the infrastructure for neurodevelopmental care alongside the CTO. Leveraging an AI-first workflow, you will develop core features across a Python/React stack to streamline NHS and private sector clinical pathways, replacing fragmented manual processes with intelligent, production-grade healthcare software that impacts real patient outcomes.
About ThinkDivergent
Health-tech Med-tech Digital Health · 5-10 employees
ThinkDivergent is building the primary operating system for neurodevelopmental care.
We make a digital platform that supports information flow, decision-making and documentation across neurodevelopmental pathways in both private healthcare and NHS settings, with a focus on ADHD and Autism.
We exist to serve those that ‘Think Different’ and create a world where neurodivergent individual have access to self-knowledge and personalised support.
What you will do
- Design and implement end-to-end features across the full stack using React, Python, Firebase, and GCP infrastructure.
- Lead system reliability efforts, including monitoring and incident response, ensuring the platform remains resilient for critical clinical use.
- Collaborate directly with the CTO to define technical roadmaps and explore how generative AI can automate operational workflows in neurodevelopmental care.
Who this is a fit for
- Proven full-stack capability with 1–4 years of experience and a natural instinct for building intuitive, high-quality frontend interfaces.
- Expert-level proficiency with AI-native development tools (Cursor/Claude) and a deep understanding of how to validate and refine AI-generated code.
- High-agency problem solver with a rigorous attention to detail, capable of thinking through complex edge cases and failure modes in a regulated environment.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join as the first engineering hire with high autonomy to shape the technical architecture, standards, and product culture from day one.
- Work for a revenue-generating, profitable startup that already holds live NHS contracts and supports real clinical workflows at scale.
- Master an AI-native development environment, using tools like Cursor and Claude as primary interfaces to build robust, agentic systems for complex healthcare journeys.
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