Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Postman
$220-240k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
Collaboration platform for API development
Be an early applicant
Collaboration platform for API development
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$220-240k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster.
Role
Who you are
- Have 6+ years of professional experience as a full-stack or backend engineer; startup or founding team experience is a big plus
- Are customer-obsessed and energized by solving real problems with high business impact
- Experience with AI Agents, API Platforms is a plus
- Have experience working directly with customers or in consultative roles (e.g., solutions engineering, CTO-as-a-service, technical consulting)
- Are a strong generalist with proficiency in Node.js, Python, or similar backend languages, and React/Next.js or similar for the frontend
- Have experience building and shipping cloud-based applications (AWS/GCP/Azure)
- Enjoy ambiguity and thrive in fast-paced, 0→1 environments
- Are excited about building systems and practices that can scale with a rapidly growing company
What the job involves
- This team will build 0-to-1 products from scratch — innovative, strategic initiatives designed to unlock hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue
- As a Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will be deeply embedded with customers and partners, working at the intersection of product, engineering, and GTM to build high-leverage solutions that solve real-world problems at scale
- Work closely with strategic customers and internal teams to deeply understand high-value problems
- Design and build full-stack applications, integrations, and tools that solve real-world use cases with APIs at the center
- Rapidly prototype solutions, validate impact, and iterate quickly based on user feedback
- Own end-to-end technical execution — from architecture and infrastructure to frontend and backend development
- Act as a trusted technical advisor and partner to customers, helping them unlock the full power of Postman
- Collaborate with Postman’s product and engineering teams to influence roadmap based on field learnings
- Help define and scale the Forward Deployed Engineering function from the ground up
- Travel Requirement: 20–30%, based on customer engagement needs. This may include on-site visits for strategy, discovery, deployment, support meetings
Our take
Postman is a SaaS collaboration platform designed to streamline API development teams. APIs serve as the backbone for communication and data sharing across numerous applications, playing a pivotal role in today's device-centric landscape. The platform offers tools for testing, version control, and documentation, ensuring the efficient production of APIs.
Initially founded in Bangalore, Postman has since relocated its headquarters to San Francisco. With a prestigious clientele including X, Shopify, and Intuit, the platform boasts over 15M developers worldwide. Postman actively engages with the API developer community through various initiatives, such as hosting hackathons with enticing cash prizes.
The growing reliance on APIs to fuel digital transformation, compounded by the widespread shift to remote work and digitalization, underscores their critical importance. Moreover, the sensitive nature of APIs, given the data they transmit and the potential security risks, accentuates the need for robust development practices. Hence, Postman has thrived as companies seek to develop secure APIs efficiently to meet evolving demands.
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Insights
51% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Health care: Based on where you're located and the plans available there, you can have up to 100% of your and your family's premium costs covered by Postman, or receive a generous monthly allowance to supplement existing medical coverage
- Unlimited PTO: All full-time Postman employees have unlimited paid time off (PTO). We strongly encourage everyone to exercise this benefit to ensure that personal and work lives remain well-balanced, healthy, and fully charged. Your body, mind, spirit, and loved ones will appreciate it!
- Supporting healthy meals: We want to ensure you eat healthy each day. It's why we provide a taxable monthly stipend so that you can be nourished throughout the week
- Play well, be well: We're serious about your wellness. Whether it's a boxing club membership, hula classes, or a longboard, we're here to cheer you on to get out and get moving. We'll reimburse you for activities and items that bring you joy through our wellness and fitness program
- A room with a view: We want you set up for success! To help make your home office comfortable, we'll provide a one-time reimbursement for your office set-up and headphones. Internet and phone costs are also reimbursable on a monthly basis
- Career development: We support your career development by providing access to unlimited courses on Udemy and a book allowance. Enhance and uplevel your skills, and even learn something completely new!
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Abhinav Asthana
(CEO)They began their career as CTO of BITS360, which they co-founded in 2007, before co-founding Grayscale Design and TeliportMe. They used this entrepreneurial experience to co-found Postman in October 2014, aiming to simplify API development.
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