Engineering Manager - Backend

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 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.
Responsibilities:
Business and Product Alignment.
Work closely with business and product stakeholders to identify and pursue opportunities which engineering can contribute to.
Identify broad OKRs for the team which aligns with the organization, business unit, and product goals.
Formalize business requirements into tangible sprints.
Vision, Strategy, and Planning.
Drive the adoption of technical frameworks and specific technologies.
Drive technical re-design, remodeling, and refactoring of systems for robustness and sustainability.
Cost planning for systems.
Performance monitoring and optimization for systems.
Team roadmap planning.
Drive high-level design for projects.
Drive adoption of guiding design frameworks like domain-driven design, clean architecture, etc., resulting in a robust layered architecture.
Focus also on the non-functional aspects of design, including but not limited to database design, communication protocols, deployment systems, etc.
Code Review - Drive good code review practices, using the review process as a mentoring tool to upskill people.
Project Management.
Drive the execution of the project by delegating tasks effectively.
Resolve blockers through technical expertise and negotiation.
Estimate timelines and ensure adherence to them through effective sync.
Team Management.
Manage a team of 5 - 6 members.
Do periodic assessments of reported, chart their career growth paths, and train them.
Recruit members into the team by collaborating effectively with the recruitment team.
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree.
B. Tech/M. Tech from a top-tier college.
Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, AWS Lambda.
Kotlin, Java, Ruby, Javascript, Python.
PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, DynamoDB, Amazon Redshift.
HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS.
Amazon ECS, Docker.
Domain Driven Design, Clean Architecture, Layered Architecture.
Have 8-12 years of relevant engineering work experience, which includes at least 2 hands-on technical management experiences.
Have experience leading a technical team of at least 3 members across different technical operations.
Have a strong technical background and can contribute to design and development across the software product lifecycle.
Familiar with our tech stack (Python/ Django/ MySQL/ Oracle/ NoSQL/ AngularJS/ Linux).
Familiar with the use of Containers like Docker.
Familiar with implementing organizational processes using tools like Asana/ Git/ Docs/ Slack/ etc.