Founding Clinical Product Engineer in London

Why Asterix Exists

Asterix exists for one reason: to fix the biggest problem in healthcare. There are not enough doctors, and the system can no longer keep up. Millions of patients wait weeks for appointments. Millions more are stuck on hospital waitlists. Preventable health conditions are missed and go unnoticed. Asterix is building the only scalable solution. We're creating a new model of care where highly-qualified doctors are augmented by AI - safely, consistently, and measurably. DoctorOS, our emerging clinical platform, is becoming the backbone of modern healthcare delivery. We combine rigorous clinical leadership, technology designed for real-world care, and AI tooling that makes doctors 10× more productive. We're backed by Entrepreneur First, recently closed an oversubscribed funding round, and are live with some of the largest healthcare providers in the UK, generating revenue and expanding fast.

The Role

As our Founding Clinical Product Engineer, you will sit at the intersection of clinical practice and product engineering. You will translate real clinical workflows, constraints, and risks into high-quality software that doctors trust in live patient care. You'll build core product surfaces in DoctorOS and help define how clinicians interact with the platform every day. This is a product-first engineering role with deep clinical ownership. You'll work closely with doctors, clinical leadership, and founders to ensure what we ship is safe, intuitive, and genuinely useful in real-world care environments. AI is part of our platform, but your primary responsibility is building clinically sound, production-ready product experiences.

What You'll Own

• Frontend architecture: building fast, intuitive, and reliable clinician-facing interfaces
• Clinical workflows: encoding real medical decision-making into usable software
• Safety & quality: ensuring features behave predictably in high-stakes clinical contexts
• Cross-functional translation: acting as a bridge between engineers, clinicians, and product
• Early team culture: helping define engineering and clinical product standards from day one

Who You Are

We don't care about pedigree. We care about judgment, ownership, and real-world impact. You thrive when:

• The product is used in live clinical environments
• The stakes are high and mistakes matter
• You own outcomes end-to-end
• You can move between clinical thinking and engineering execution

You must have:

• A medical or clinical background
• Trained doctor (MRCGP / MBBS / MD / equivalent), or background in a closely related clinical field (e.g., physician associate, clinical scientist, advanced nurse practitioner)
• First-hand experience working in real healthcare settings
• Strong experience building software with React and TypeScript (or equivalent modern frontend stack)
• The ability to reason about clinical risk, safety, and workflow design

Why your clinical experience matters

Your background in medicine is central to this role. Because you've trained and worked in real clinical environments, you can hold conversations that are rare in software engineering. You understand the pressure, trade-offs, interruptions, and cognitive load of delivering care. You've lived the pain we're trying to solve. This lived experience lets you:

• Challenge product decisions with real-world clinical judgment
• Spot failure modes that non-clinicians miss
• Design workflows that actually fit how medicine is practiced, not how it looks on paper
• Earn trust quickly with doctors, clinical leads, and healthcare partners

We're not looking for someone to "learn healthcare" on the job. We're looking for someone who already understands the reality of clinical work and can translate that understanding into software that genuinely improves care.

You’ll be a great fit if you also have:

• Experience shipping production software used by clinicians
• Full-stack instincts (even if frontend is your strength)
• Startup or founding-team experience
• Comfort working in regulated or safety-critical environments

Nice to have (not required)

• Experience integrating AI or LLM-powered features into products
• Exposure to clinical governance, audits, or safety processes
• Experience building AI-as-a-medical-device
• Experience with healthcare data security standards

Culture - The Asterix Way

• Humble: We assume we're wrong until clinicians or data prove otherwise. We ask questions and learn fast.
• High-intensity, founder mentality: No corporate mindset. You push problems to resolution and act like an owner of the mission, product, and codebase.
• Joyful energy: We take the work seriously but not ourselves. We celebrate wins, laugh often, and support each other fully.
• In-person by design: We work shoulder-to-shoulder in London. It makes us faster, tighter, and better.

What Success Looks Like

You will:

• Ship production features used by doctors in real care settings
• Deeply understand clinical workflows and constraints
• Improve frontend architecture and product quality
• Own a meaningful slice of the clinical product roadmap

Success looks like:

• Clinicians trust and rely on what you've built
• You're shipping independently and raising the bar

Months 3 - 6: Lead, Architect, Level Up

You will:

• Own major clinical product areas end-to-end
• Make architectural decisions that shape DoctorOS
• Improve usability, safety, and reliability at scale
• Help interview and onboard future engineers

Success looks like:

• You're the go-to person for clinical product decisions
• You influence product direction with founders and clinicians

Months 6 - 12: Own Systems, Shape the Company

You will:

• Own multi-quarter clinical product initiatives
• Mentor new hires and shape engineering culture
• Build foundational systems that scale safely
• Represent Asterix in technical and clinical conversations

Success looks like:

• Your work becomes core clinical infrastructure
• You're trusted with company-defining decisions
• You're shipping features that meaningfully reduce clinician workload and improve patient care