Backend Engineer (Python/TypeScript) - Bengaluru

Design the system a household bets its day on.

• *Company Details**

At M, we’re early, ambitious, and moving fast. We’re building a new category in how urban households function. We help households run smoothly through trained professionals, operational excellence, and technology\-driven support systems. Backed by Peak XV Partners, Blume Ventures and CRED, we’re reimagining how homes run, so people never have to think about chores again.

Website: https://tellm.co/

• *The Role**

Design the system a household bets its day on.

M is agentic software in production, and agentic systems are unforgiving: a loop that doesn't converge burns money, a weak boundary corrupts a tenant's data, a slow write makes a household wait. As we scale, you'll take over architecture ownership and set the foundations: the boundaries, the safety, the scale, the standards.

• *Requirements**

• 4 to 6 years in backend and distributed systems, including real architecture ownership.
• You've designed systems that stayed correct and affordable under scale and concurrency.
• Deep judgment on data modelling, consistency, isolation, and failure modes.
• You've made a fast\-growing team better through standards, review, and mentorship.
• Calm with ambiguity; you bring order to it.

• *Bonus Qualifications**

• Worked on agentic/AI systems, event\-sourced architectures, or high\-stakes transactional systems.
• Tamed a runaway cost or reliability problem in a complex system.
• Opinions on where automated systems need hard limits and human confirmation.

• *Responsibilities**

• Own backend architecture as the team and product scale several\-fold.
• Design the boundaries and safety that keep autonomous, AI\-driven systems correct, bounded, and affordable.
• Get multi\-tenant isolation, reliability, and performance right.
• Make the hard design and build\-vs\-buy calls, and write the standards the team builds against.
• Raise the bar through review and mentorship.

• *30 / 60 / 90\-Day Expectations**

• **30 days:** you've absorbed the architecture, found the sharpest risks, and are already shaping decisions.
• **60 days:** you own architecture for core systems and have led a foundational design the team is building on.
• **90 days:** you're the architecture owner, standards, boundaries, and the bar are set by you.

• *Job Details**

Bengaluru, work from office.

• *Interview Process**

• Technical Discussion
• System Design Round
• Founder Discussion

• *Important Note**

ClanX is a recruitment partner, helping TellM hire a Senior Backend Engineer.