About Porter

Porter is building the operating system for intra-city logistics in
India. With ~20 million orders per month, 500K+ daily-active drivers,
and rapid scale ahead (1.5x growth expected next year), we solve complex
real-world problems at massive scale, balancing speed, reliability, and cost
efficiency in a highly operational setting.

Role Overview

As an SDE 4 at Porter, you own a domain or platform
spanning multiple services and set its technical direction. You’ll
architect systems that hold up at Porter scale, influence priorities across
teams without authority, and drive quarter-long technical roadmaps mapped to
business KPIs. You’ll raise the engineering bar — through design reviews,
mentorship of senior and junior engineers, and active participation in hiring —
and shape how the team reasons about reliability, cost, and trade-offs.

You
think from first principles, use AI as a force multiplier (and
help others use it well), and ship systems that are reliable, observable, and
economically sustainable at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Technical & System Design

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Architect and own multi-service
systems and platforms handling millions of transactions — reasoning
explicitly about service contracts, failure modes across boundaries, and
cross-service observability.

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Drive high-level and
low-level design across services — including build/buy/defer decisions
framed by ROI and contribution-margin.

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Perform capacity planning,
back-of-the-envelope calculations, and identify system bottlenecks early — at
single-service and cross-service scope.

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Set technical direction for
your domain via quarter-long roadmaps mapped to business KPIs; sequence
delivery against tech-debt and operational risk.

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Lead engineering operations for
your domain: SLIs/SLAs, MTTR/MTTA, automated remediation (auto-retry,
throttles, autoscaling guards), zero-downtime migrations, and
cost-per-transaction awareness.

Coding & Execution

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Write clean, maintainable, and
testable produ

📌 Software Development Engineer IV (Bengaluru)
🏢 Porter
📍 Bengaluru