Principal Engineer

Porter: Creating Impactful Journeys

At Porter, we're not just passionate about improving productivity; we're on a vision to Moving a billion dreams one delivery at a time. We empower businesses, both large and small, to optimize their operations and unleash unprecedented growth in their core functions. Join us in pioneering the future of last-mile logistics, one that's poised to disrupt the industry and redefine the way we think about transportation.

Why Porter?

• Industry Leadership: As the fastest-growing leader in last-mile logistics, we boast a Pan India and International presence with operations spanning multiple cities. With a fleet size exceeding 750k driver partners and 15 million customers. Porter is at the forefront of this dynamic and rapidly expanding sector.
• Cutting-Edge Technology: Our industry-best technology platform has garnered over $150 million in investments from renowned backers, including Sequoia Capital, Kae Capital, Mahindra Group, LGT Aspada, Tiger Global, and Vitruvian Partners. We leverage technology to drive efficiency, innovation, and unparalleled service.
• Ambitious: We're not just solving problems; we're addressing a massive challenge and going after a market with a valuation surpassing $50 billion USD. Our ambition extends beyond last-mile delivery; we aim to disrupt all facets of logistics, including warehousing and LTL transportation.
• Thriving Community: Join a community of passionate individuals who are committed to doing the best work of their lives. At Porter, we value the spirit of collaboration, innovation, and embracing challenges head-on.

Be a Part of Something Extraordinary:

If you're ready to make an impact, be at the forefront of innovation, and embrace the challenges and opportunities of a fast-paced work environment, Porter is the place for you. We're not just building a brand; we're creating a household name in transportation. Join us and be part of the revolution – where every day is an opportunity to redefine what's possible.

If you are ready to make a significant impact and shape the future of Porter, apply now and be part of our exciting journey!

Responsibilities:

● System Architecture

• Design system architectures to meet the product needs and business scale both in the short and the long term
• Own the High Level Design of systems and Low Level Design of the domain in line with the industry standard practices to ensure ease of maintenance and iteration.
• Set goals for platform evolution, and the roadmap for achieving it.
• Propose and drive technical innovation and experiments
• Align proposed system architecture with other Principal Engineers and the Engineering Leadership through a technical RFC process.
• Participate in RFC discussions proposed by other teams also.

● Technical Excellence

• Be responsible for the system SLAs, metrics and monitoring
• Set performance goals, and be instrumental in finding means to achieve them
• Help resolve production issue escalations
• Capacity planning based on scale and cost estimations
• Scope technical debt and build roadmap to reduce it
• Maintain system architecture documentation

● Tech Mentoring

• Drive, and standardize patterns, set practices and drive their adoption both in the team and across teams
• Do code reviews, use it as means of providing feedback and upskilling the developer

Skills Required

• Backend software engineering experience: 8 - 12+ years
• Experience in designing distributed systems based on event driven architecture handling significant scale
• Experience in owning system performance metrics and system evolution
• Exposure to consumer facing products
• Familiarity with our tech stack or an analogous tech stack
• Responsible for mentoring sizeable teams - 10+ developer

Technologies Used

• Web application frameworks : Ktor, Ruby on Rails, Node.js
• Languages : Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python
• Datastores : PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift
• Communication : HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
• Server management : Amazon ECS, Containers, AWS Lambda
• Design frameworks : Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture, Event driven architecture