Backend Engineer (Python/TypeScript) - Bengaluru

CLANX; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

TellM is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to own architecture as we scale our agentic software. You’ll establish boundaries, safety, and performance for multi-tenant AI-driven systems from the ground up.

You’ll guide design decisions, mentor growing teams, and ensure reliability and affordability. The role requires 4–6 years in backend and distributed systems and a track record of architectural ownership in high-scale environments.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.

Skills

Backend systems

Distributed systems

Architecture ownership

Mentorship

Job description

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.