Software Development Engineer II – Scalable Systems

About the role

Porter is building the operating system for intra‑city logistics in India. As a Software Development Engineer II you will be a core builder of large‑scale production systems that handle millions of daily transactions, ensuring reliability, performance and cost efficiency.

Key responsibilities

• Design, develop and own scalable services and modules within a distributed backend ecosystem.
• Drive low‑level design independently and contribute to high‑level architecture discussions.
• Perform performance analysis, reason about scale, failure modes and trade‑offs.
• Ensure owned components are observable, well‑monitored and cost‑aware.
• Lead root‑cause analysis, implement preventive fixes and maintain high uptime.
• Mentor junior engineers and influence code‑quality standards within the pod.

Required profile

• 2–5 years of professional software development experience.
• Track record of shipping production‑ready systems.
• Experience with distributed systems or backend services.
• Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms and system design.

Required skills

• Distributed systems
• Backend service development
• System design
• Data structures and algorithms
• AI‑assisted development tools