Senior Backend Engineer (Distributed Systems) - 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+ 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

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