Ekko MD
Website:
ekko.nl
Company:
https://www.linkedin.com/company/ekko-medical-solutions-pvt-ltd
Seniority: Not Applicable
Industries: Software Development
Job details:
Ekko | Full-time | Chennai | Reporting to the CTO
About Ekko
Ekko is an AI-powered healthcare product that turns clinical conversations into structured
documentation. Our pipeline transcribes audio, generates clinical notes, and extracts structured
data using LLMs. We ship a web app and a backend service used by clinicians who depend on
getting it right.
We're a small, early-stage team that cares a lot about craft, moves fast, and keeps the chai flowing.
The person in this role sets the technical bar for everyone around them.
The Role
We're hiring a Tech Lead to be our player-coach: someone who writes real production code and
sets technical direction for the team. You'll own how we build across our React/TypeScript front-end
and NestJS/TypeScript backend, make the architecture calls that matter, and grow the engineers
around you.
This is not a hands-off architect role. You'll spend a healthy share of your week in the codebase
(think roughly half to two-thirds), shipping alongside the team while also unblocking them, reviewing
their work, and raising the standard. You'll partner closely with product and the CTO to turn a fast-
moving roadmap into solid, reliable software that clinicians can trust.
The best person for this leads by earning trust, not by issuing decrees. You listen first, diagnose
before you change things, and you're as comfortable mentoring a junior engineer as you are
debating a tradeoff with a founder.
What You'll Do
Set technical direction
Own architecture decisions across the web app, backend, and AI pipeline integration
Make pragmatic tradeoffs between speed, reliability, and long-term maintainability
Define engineering standards for code quality, testing, and how we ship
Stay hands-on
Write production code across our React / TypeScript and NestJS / TypeScript stack
Take on the hard or ambiguous parts of the build yourself
Lead by example in code review, debugging, and incident response
Grow the team
Mentor engineers and help them go from executing tasks to owning outcomes
Give clear, kind, direct feedback, and pair on tricky problems
Build a healthy engineering culture as the team scales
Own delivery
Break a roadmap into shippable milestones and keep them moving
Be honest and early about risk, scope, and timelines
Partner with product and the CTO so we build the right thing, not just something
What You Bring
7+ years building production software, with at least 2 years leading or as a tech lead
Strong full-stack ability in TypeScript (React on the front-end, Node/NestJS or similar on the
backend)
A track record of making sound architecture decisions and explaining the reasoning simply
Real experience mentoring engineers and raising a team's bar
Comfort owning delivery end to end: scope, sequencing, risk, and shipping
The judgment to listen and diagnose before making sweeping changes
Comfort with startup life: ambiguity, ownership, and shipping over perfection
Nice to Have
Healthcare Or Other High-trust, Accuracy-critical Software Experience
Experience building or integrating LLM/AI pipelines in production
Familiarity with AWS, Prisma, Redis, and real-time systems (WebSockets)
Experience setting up CI/CD and quality gates (GitHub Actions)
Serious foodies welcome; we take team lunch a little too seriously
Bonus if you can settle an architecture debate with a well-timed Rajinikanth dialogue
What We Value
These are the values we hire for and live by:
People First, Always. Empowered, supported people build transformative solutions, so we
invest in our team.
Build with Empathy. We understand the pain points of clinicians and patients, and design
solutions that feel intuitive and add real value.
Pursue Practical Innovation. We innovate with purpose, not novelty, grounded in reliability,
simplicity, and outcomes.
Move with Humility and Urgency. We're ambitious about hard problems but stay grounded in
feedback. We ship fast, learn quickly, and adapt.
Think Long-Term, Act Today. We're building a platform for the future of healthcare, making
decisions with tomorrow in mind without losing momentum today.
Win Together. Great outcomes come from collaboration. Teammates, customers, or partners,
we listen, share, and grow as one.
Why Join
Real ownership. You're setting the technical direction for the whole product, not inheriting
someone else's.
AI product depth. You'll lead engineering on a real LLM pipeline in a clinical setting.
Direct impact. Small team, fast feedback, decisions made in days not quarters.
Good people. We take the work seriously and ourselves a lot less so.
Click on Apply to know more.