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 be having a high level of interaction with business and product stakeholders.
You will be working on the entire web application stack, which includes:
o Web server hosting
o RESTful communication
o Message brokering
o Backend application layer, which includes the service and domain layers
o Data layer for persistence or caching
You will be participating in an agile software development cycle, which includes:
o Design
o Development
o Code Review
o Unit and Integration Testing
o Release
As a senior developer, you will be expected to contribute to design, code review, refactoring, and
project management.
You will be exposed to the following technologies:
o Web application frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, Vert.x, AIOHTTP, AWS
Lambda
o Languages: Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Javascript, Python
o Data stores: PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, Amazon Redshift
o Communication: HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
o Server Management: Amazon ECS, Docker
Product Overview
You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers.
Product sectors include:
o Growth: You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry
best driver on-boarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead
management models.
o Lifecycle Management: Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which
includes rewards and recognition module, subscription service, account management tools,
partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among
others.
o Transaction Experience: You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our
customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking
system, pricing and payment systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud
prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
o Fulfilment: As part of the fulfilment team, you’ll work on systems which ensure high degree
of ride fulfilment on the platform. Tools including allocation methodologies and system,
dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
o Enterprise Solutions: You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence.
You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimisation
tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.

About Porter.in
About
Company Overview:
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 50 million USD from investors including Sequoia Capital, Kae Capital, Mahindra Group and LGT Aspada. 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 last-mile logistics including warehousing and LTL transportation. 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.
Company URL: https://porter.in
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1. Have a strong bias for action and value speed over perfection.
2. Make decisions with this ethos: Customer > Company > Team > Me
3. Thrive in a flat and open organization
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Roles & Responsibilities
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for providing technical leadership, design and development of complex pieces of the service oriented architecture based platform.
- Modelling Database Design for large scale applications.
- Develop for performance engineering.
- Design for the right use of micro services, containerization and observability.
- Drive technology and product innovation through rapid prototyping and iterative development.
- Create reference implementation for our integrations and for backward compatibility.
- Not interested in managerial responsibilities
Requirements, Desired Skills and Experience
- Tech Stack based on Ruby-on-Rails, Python-Django or Node.js frameworks.
- Engineering degree
Opportunities for the right candidate
- Build and develop SaaS and PaaS products from scratch
- Build the best-in-class UX based products
- State of Art technologies (Latest trends in the industry)
- Work with a well-knit team, almost like one’s family
- Startup culture and advantages of working in a co-working space
- Performance based career progress and high visibility with management and founders
Required Technologies:
o Excellent understanding of Ruby, Ruby on Rails, CSS3
o Able to communicate well with others on technologies bases
o Working knowledge with Rspec is good to have.
o Have previous experience building features in production applications.
o Good Knowledge of SQL
Good To Have
o Basics of GIT and GIT LAB
o PostgreSQL
Able to understand frontend JS frameworks
We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the
interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. You will also be responsible for integrating the front-end elements built by your co-workers
into the application. Therefore, a basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well.
Responsibilities:
● Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server-side logic
● Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code
● Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications Implementation of security and data protection
● Integration of data storage solutions
Skills And Qualifications:
● 1-3 Years Experienced
● Strong proficiency with JavaScript
● Knowledge of Node.js and frameworks available for it (such as Express, StrongLoop, etc depending on your technology stack)
● Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds
● Good understanding of server-side templating languages
● Good understanding of server-side CSS preprocessors
● Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3
● Understanding accessibility and security compliance (Depending on the specific project)
● User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
● Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system
● Understanding fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
● Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform
● Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
● Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests
● Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git
Key Responsibilities:
- Rewrite existing APIs in NodeJS.
- Remodel the APIs into Micro services-based architecture.
- Implement a caching layer wherever possible.
- Optimize the API for high performance and scalability.
- Write unit tests for API Testing.
- Automate the code testing and deployment process.
Skills Required:
- At least 3 years of experience developing Backends using NodeJS — should be well versed with its asynchronous nature & event loop, and know its quirks and workarounds.
- Excellent hands-on experience using MySQL or any other SQL Database.
- Good knowledge of MongoDB or any other NoSQL Database.
- Good knowledge of Redis, its data types, and their use cases.
- Experience with graph-based databases like GraphQL and Neo4j.
- Experience developing and deploying REST APIs.
- Good knowledge of Unit Testing and available Test Frameworks.
- Good understanding of advanced JS libraries and frameworks.
- Experience with Web sockets, Service Workers, and Web Push Notifications.
- Familiar with NodeJS profiling tools.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools such as Git.
- Good knowledge of creating and maintaining DevOps infrastructure on cloud platforms.
- Should be a fast learner and a go-getter — without any fear of trying out new things Preferences.
- Experience building a large scale social or location-based app.
• Opportunity to develop game-changing, globally distributed, internet advertising products used by millions worldwide.
• Contribute hands-on, own, collaborate, and deliver new features and services at a fast pace.
• Build platforms, frameworks, APIs, libraries & automated tools to facilitate rapid issue
resolution and development & deployment of new features and changes.
• Own the prioritization, scoping and scheduling processes for new products and features.
• Work with and advise management on technical aspects, make well-informed decisions.
• Improve processes, technology & the applications you own continuously by showing the team better ways of doing things and help improve skills in the team.
• Prioritize tech-debt and ensure the platforms and applications meet the latest industry
standards.
• Learn new technology & practices, coach the team and conduct training sessions – devote time for learning and continuous improvement of self and team.
• Imbibe and maintain a strong customer service-oriented attitude while designing and building products.
Who should apply for this role ?
• 5 - 9 years of experience in building or managing large scale distributed systems
• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or other relevant majors
• A track record of working on scalable applications, preferably at a major internet property or well-known startup
• Good grasp on programming fundamentals including OOP, Design Principles and Data Structures
• Excellent analytical, logical, and problem-solving skills
• Solid knowledge of Java/Python/Golang, web services (REST/JSON), NoSql Databases,
Kafka/Kinesis/Spark, Elasticsearch/Solr/Kibana
• Can exhibit passion and enthusiasm for remarkable technology (Knowledge and contribution to open source projects, Active Blog, etc. is a plus)
• Ability to learn emerging technical/business standards and apply/coach development team in proper adoption
• Deep understanding of development processes and has personally contributed to critical
product cycles
• Communicate effectively & cross-functionally with other teams
- 3 - 6 Years of Experience in Product Development - Experience in Java (8 or 11+), Spring (4+), Spring Boot (2.4+) is a must.
- Understands requirements well and comes up with an efficient design
- Develops complex, well-backed and bug-free products.
- Estimates accurately.
- Takes well-reasoned tech decisions keeping in mind goals and trade-offs
- Become a go-to person in more than one area.
- Provide technical mentoring to team
- Communicates clearly, gets clarifications, and establishes expectations for all parties
- Helps establish SDLC best practices and high standards of code quality
- Demonstrates excellent problem solving & debugging skills
- Proactively identifies and resolves issues in requirements, design, and code
Ideal Candidate Profile :
- Solid experience in Java, Spring Boot, hibernate is a must.
- Solid experience in Java Multithreading, Streams, and Lambda Functions is a must.
- Solid understanding of Apache Products.
- Should have experience in cloud computing (AWS is desired).
- Has an ability to quickly learn and contribute in multiple codebases
- Overcomes roadblocks and requires minimal oversight
- Takes initiatives to fix issues/tech debts before assigned to him/her
- Able to deep dive into the codebase and advise QA of possible regression impact
- Communicates tech decisions through design docs and tech talks
- Has delivered projects with end-to-end accountability
- Keeps track of industry trends and introduces the right tech/tools for a given job
- Excellent understanding of software engineering practices, design patterns, data structures, algorithms
- Experience in product driven organization
Writing well-designed, efficient, and testable code.
Delivering high availability and performance.
Contributing in all phases of the development lifecycle.

It can be taking our own product and customizing as per the customer requirements or developing applications from the scratch.







