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🚀 Architecting the Future of Logistics: We’re Hiring an SDE 4
How do you design a system that seamlessly powers ~20 million orders per month? You think from first principles, leverage AI as a force multiplier, and build for economic sustainability at scale.
At Porter, we are building the operating system for intra-city logistics in India. With 500K+ daily-active drivers and an expected 1.5x growth next year, we solve highly complex, real-world operational challenges at a massive scale. To fuel this hyper-growth, we are looking for a visionary SDE 4 to own core domains and define our technical trajectory.
🌟 The Blueprint of the Role
As an SDE 4, you won't just write code; you will hold the architectural keys to a platform spanning multiple services. You are a high-autonomy technical leader who can navigate ambiguity and influence across teams without direct authority.
The Core Mission: Raise our engineering bar through rigorous design reviews, exemplary mentorship, and high-ROI architectural decisions that perfectly balance speed, reliability, and cost-per-transaction awareness.
🎯 What Your Quarters Will Look Like
Architect & Own: Lead multi-service systems handling millions of transactions, explicitly reasoning about contracts, failure modes, and cross-service observability.
Drive Design & ROI: Execute high- and low-level designs, making critical build/buy/defer choices framed by contribution-margin.
Elevate Operations: Own engineering operations (SLIs/SLAs, MTTR/MTTA) and build automated remediation systems (throttles, auto-retries) to prevent repeat incidents.
Write Exemplary Code: Ship clean, maintainable, production-grade code using SOLID principles, ensuring interfaces withstand 2–3x system growth.
Be a Force Multiplier: Introduce cutting-edge AI workflows that lift the entire team's velocity, and provide behavior-based mentorship to senior and junior engineers.
🛠️ Who You Are
The Experience: You bring 7+ years of software development experience (SDE 4 or equivalent senior IC role), ideally within fast-paced startups or scale-ups.
The Track Record: You have a proven history of scaling production systems end-to-end across multiple quarters and domains.
The Tech Stack: Deeply familiar with modern backend stacks, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, data structures, and object-oriented design.
The Mindset: You possess an intense sense of ownership ("Own It"), user obsession, a bias for action under ambiguity ("Keep Moving"), and a collaborative spirit ("Collaborate to Win").
AI-Savvy: You use AI as a productivity accelerator, critically validating its outputs while reasoning independently when it falls short.
✨ Why Porter is Your Next Big Move
Massive Real-World Scale: Your decisions will directly shape millions of physical and operational marketplace transactions every single month.
Absolute Autonomy: Take total ownership of quarter-long roadmaps, technical directions, and architectural calls within your domain.
Impact-Driven Culture: Thrive in an environment that deeply values frugality, speed, ownership, and engineering excellence.
Uncapped Growth: Enjoy significant professional scope to advance your career into deeper technical or organizational leadership paths.
💼 Ready to Elevate the Operating System of Logistics?
If you're a resilient engineer ready to tackle unique challenges at the intersection of marketplace dynamics and consumer experience, let's connect.
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