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.
Job details are sourced from the employer's original posting.
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