--- title: 'Full-stack Engineer at TORTUS' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/full-stack-engineer-tortus-london-kx1nak7016e1' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Full-stack Engineer at TORTUS - **Company:** TORTUS - **Location:** London, United Kingdom - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-08-18 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tortus/761a7336-4d0a-408f-8203-70281b880f62 ## Job description ## ABOUT TORTUS AI At TORTUS we work with clinicians and hospitals to provide clinically safe and reliable AI. We use speech-to-text and LLM models to infer information about a patient visit and provide verified documentation and actions — eliminating the documentation burden that costs clinicians hours every day. We've recorded over 1 million consultations. Clients include London Ambulance Service and a large proportion of UK GP surgeries. We are now entering our next phase: an AI doctor product and a ~£30M Series A raise. ## ABOUT THE ROLE We are looking for product-minded engineers who care as much about the why as the how. You will be allocated to one of our product squads (AVT, Frontier, Foundation, or Lifeboat) based on fit, and will own meaningful surface area across the stack from day one. ## WHAT YOU'LL DO - Build and ship product features across the full stack in a fast-moving, regulated healthtech environment - Consume infrastructure via Foundation Squad Terraform modules; know when to reach for pubsub vs other patterns without necessarily authoring the modules - Collaborate closely with product and design — you have done this before and know how to work well cross-functionally - Contribute to engineering quality and our compliance posture (ISO 27001, ISO 13485) ## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR - 2-5+ years of full-stack experience - Strong product instincts — you think about the why as much as the how - Frontend excellence: React, TypeScript - Backend proficiency: Node.js/NestJS or Python/FastAPI - Solid understanding of distributed systems patterns and when to apply them - Experience working alongside design functions and translating designs into high-quality product - Track record of shipping in production ## NICE TO HAVE - Experience in healthtech or regulated software - Experience with healthcare integrations (FHIR, HL7, EHR systems) - Familiarity with Terraform or infrastructure-as-code - Experience with event-driven architectures WHAT DOES WILD SUCCESS LOOK LIKE? In 12–18 months, you are the engineer your squad relies on to get things over the line. You have shipped features that clinicians notice and talk about. You understand the compliance context well enough to make the right call without being asked. Your squad lead is thinking about what a more senior version of your role looks like. WHERE DOES THIS ROLE TAKE YOU? Strong engineers at TORTUS grow into tech lead or staff engineer roles as the squads scale, or move towards product engineering leadership. The regulated, high-stakes domain means the skills you build here are genuinely differentiated — and the impact is visible in how clinicians work every day. ## OUR STACK GCP · GKE · Terraform · GitOps & ArgoCD · PostgreSQL + Redis · TypeScript across the stack (React, NestJS) · Python/FastAPI for ML workloads · Pub/Sub for events · Self-hosted ML models ## WHAT WE OFFER - 28 days holiday + bank holidays - Latest MacBook and the right equipment - Office-first culture based at Holborn Town Hall — typically Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in office; Monday and Friday flexible - The chance to genuinely transform healthcare ## About TORTUS ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: TORTUS develops ambient voice AI for clinical documentation, certified as a UKCA Class IIa medical device and deployed across the NHS to reduce administrative burden on clinicians. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: London, England - **Founded**: 2022 - **Founders**: Dr. Dom Pimenta and Christopher Tan ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Healthcare AI / Clinical Decision Support - **Target customers**: NHS trusts, GP surgeries, ambulance services (B2B, public sector) - **Mission or purpose**: “Create a new healthcare system where clinicians and AI work together” — with the ambition to “eliminate human error in medicine.” ## Products & Services - **[TORTUS Platform]**: Ambient voice technology that listens to clinician-patient consultations, generates structured clinical notes, letters, and referrals in seconds, and writes them into the EHR after clinician approval. Type: SaaS medical device (UKCA Class IIa). - **[The Shell]**: A proprietary LLM-as-a-judge benchmark for ambient scribes, focused on hallucination reduction and clinical accuracy. (Published methodology.) ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private) - **Key Metric**: Total funding of **$4.4M** in Seed round (led by Khosla Ventures, with Entrepreneur First and angels). - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures, Entrepreneur First, X-on Health (partnership with 3,500 GP surgeries), Great Ormond Street Hospital, London Ambulance Service, St George’s University Hospitals, Royal Devon University Healthcare. - **Growth Signals**: - Over **2.5 million consultations** processed (as of mid-2025) - First ambient voice technology to deploy in the NHS (Feb 2024) - Phase IV multi-site clinical trial with NHS England (17,000 patients) showed **+23.5% direct patient-care time** and **13.4% productivity gain** in Emergency Departments - Integrated with major NHS EHRs (Epic, Cerner) and telephony systems (X-On, Avaya) - Published in *npj Digital Medicine* (Nature) — peer-reviewed hallucination framework ## Competitive Advantages - **Regulatory moat**: First ambient voice technology to achieve UKCA Class IIa medical device certification; ISO 13485, ISO 27001, Cyber Essentials Plus, NHS DTAC compliant. - **Clinical accuracy**: Proprietary “Shell” benchmark claims best-in-class hallucination reduction (92.7% hallucinations removed, peer-reviewed). - **NHS‑embedded**: Deep integration into the UK public healthcare system (1,000+ NHS organisations, four years of live deployment). - **Patient privacy**: Zero patient audio retained at rest (by design). ## Strategic Focus - **Scale across secondary care** (ambulance clinical hubs, ED, outpatients) and primary care (via X-on Health partnership). - **Expand research programme** to define standards for clinical AI evaluation; currently in MHRA AI Airlock programme. - **Build toward US market** (mentioned “US colleagues” on team page). ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: “Mission-driven, empathic and relentless executors” — small, focused team of ~23 employees (one-third clinicians, one-third engineers, one-third AI scientists). - **Work model**: Hybrid workspace (based in Holborn, London) with a combination of remote and on-site work. - **Impact**: Work directly on problems that affect millions of NHS patients; published research in top journals; opportunity to shape regulatory frameworks for clinical AI. - **Perks**: Not specified, but emphasis on “supertalented people,” fastest pace possible while maintaining safety (“as fast as we can, as slow as we need”). - **Open roles**: Listed on [Ashby careers page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tortus) – positions include Senior ML Engineer, Technical Lead, Clinical Compliance Associate, Founding Engineer. ## Sources 1. [tortus.ai](https://tortus.ai/) 2. [tortus.ai/team](https://tortus.ai/team) 3. [tortus.ai/about](https://tortus.ai/about) 4. [find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/14487060) 5. 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