Software Development Engineer I- Backend null

About Porter

At Porter, we are passionate about improving productivity. We want to help businesses, large and small, optimize their last-mile operations and empower them to unleash the growth of their core functions. Last mile delivery logistics is one of the biggest and fastest growing sectors of the economy with a market cap upwards of 50 billion USD and a growth rate exceeding 15% CAGR.
Porter is the fastest growing leader in this sector with operations in 14 major cities, a fleet size exceeding 1L registered and 50k active driver partners and a customer base with 3.5M being monthly active. Our industry-best technology platform has raised over 150 million USD from investors including Sequoia Capital, Kae Capital, Mahindra group, LGT Aspada, Tiger Global and Vitruvian Partners.
We are addressing a massive problem and going after a huge market. We’re trying to create a household name in transportation and our ambition is to disrupt all facets of the supply chain. At Porter, we’re here to do the best work of our lives.
If you want to do the same and love the challenges and opportunities of a fast-paced work environment, then we believe Porter is the right place for you.

Technical Overview:

You will be expected to design, develop and maintain large-scale complex backend web applications.

You will be expected to rapidly learn and apply relevant new technologies.

You will have a high level of interaction with business and product stakeholders.

You will be working on the entire web application stack, which includes:

• Web server hosting
• RESTful communication
• Message brokering
• Backend application layer, which includes the service and domain layers
• Data layer for persistence or caching
   

You will be participating in an agile software development cycle, which includes:

1. Design
2. Development
3. Code Review
4. Unit and Integration Testing
5. Release

You will be exposed to the following technologies:

• Web application frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, Vert.x, AIOHTTP, AWS Lambda
• Languages: Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Javascript, Python
• Data stores: PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, Amazon Redshift
• Communication: HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
• Server Management: Amazon ECS, Docker