Postman
Senior Engineer (Backend), Automation Team (Technical Lead Role)
Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 35 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster.
The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman.
P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.
The Automation Testing team builds and maintains multiple product lines which enable users to manually and automatically test their APIs and execute workflows. If you’ve used Postman and are familiar with Scheduled Collection Runs, Monitors, the Collection Runner, Postman CLI, or newman, then you're already familiar with some of the products this team works on! Building such a variety of products means the team is capable of thinking of their feet, learning new things quickly, and balancing competing priorities.
- The Postman Monitors and Scheduled Collection Runs cloud platform sends more than 100 million requests every month. That’s a sustained ~37 RPS, without missing a beat!
- The underlying database manages over 100 terabytes of data, and uses managed infrastructure to send requests from regions across the globe.
What You’ll Do
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Lead the design, build, and implementation of backend architecture to ensure the continued scale of the Collections. In the process, you’ll proactively identify and resolve any technical risk to the business.
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Collaborate with a dynamic, cross-functional teams that includes Product Managers, Designers, and Engineering leaders across multiple orgs.
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Lead the team architecture of multiple teams like collections, version control, mock servers and scale it further for our upcoming growth. Identify and champion initiatives that drive architectural improvement and innovation.
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Be an integral contributor to roadmap planning, coordinating with all stakeholders to align our products with strategic goals.
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Offer technical leadership and mentorship to your fellow engineers, sharing best practices and elevating our collective expertise. Set and maintain a high bar for operational excellence.
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Take ownership of the maturation of existing systems by defining initiatives to improve availability, reliability, performance and maintainability.
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Rapidly construct functional prototypes to address both internal and external use-cases, driving our product’s evolution.
About You
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8+ years of experience writing production code and maintaining production systems.
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Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures. Your knowledge of data management fundamentals and data storage principles is solid.
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Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects.
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Strong analytical and debugging skills.
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Passionate about mentoring and fostering a collaborative team environment.
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You can demystify technical concepts, effectively sharing knowledge with product managers, designers, support, and other engineers.
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Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
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You’re mission-oriented, care about the details, and like to move fast.
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An insatiable curiosity moves you to understand how things work and to constantly learn, absorb, and share new knowledge.
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Experience working on a developer product is a plus.
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Experience working with NodeJS and TypeScript is a plus
This position requires you to be present in our Bangalore office on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays.
In addition to Postman's pay-on-performance philosophy, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team, Postman offers a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Along with that, our wellness programs will help you stay in the best of your physical and mental health. If you have little ones in your family, the creche allowance can help in supporting your work-life balance. Our frequent and fascinating team-building events will keep you connected, while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about. We’re building a long-term company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves.
At Postman, we embrace a hybrid work model. For all roles based out of San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Bangalore, Noida, Hyderabad, and New York, employees are expected to come into the office 3-days a week. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on balancing flexibility and collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers. The benefits of our hybrid office model will be shared knowledge, brainstorming sessions, communication, and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom.
Our Values
At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.
Equal opportunity
Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.
