Staff Fullstack Engineer, Postman
Postman Insights
$253-297k
+ Shares
3+ days a week in office
Collaboration platform for API development
Job no longer available
Collaboration platform for API development
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$253-297k
+ Shares
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
- We’re looking for a skilled engineer who combines technical leadership with hands-on coding. You excel at solving complex problems, mentoring others, and delivering scalable systems quickly and pragmatically, driving high-impact projects from concept to completion
- Product and user-focused mindset. You have the ability to deeply understand your users’ needs and are skilled at translating them into well-scoped technical solutions
- Moves fast. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are excited about rapidly iterating on features to achieve business goals
- Pragmatic problem solver. You get excited about figuring out the minimal, most efficient way to build the next feature
- Leadership and mentoring. You have experience guiding teams, fostering technical excellence, and serving as a role model for your peers
- Hands-on coding. You’re eager to roll up your sleeves and spend 50% of your time coding, with a focus on delivering core features quickly while maintaining high standards of quality
- Expert in system architecture. You have a deep understanding of building scalable, high-performance systems that allow rapid iteration and experimentation
- Strong communication skills. You excel at facilitating clear and effective communication within your team and across departments, ensuring alignment and proactively unblocking challenges to achieve business goals
- Remote collaboration. You effectively collaborate across time zones, ensuring team engagement and alignment
- 10+ years of software development experience
- Track record of delivering high-impact, user-facing products
- Demonstrated solid ability to mentor and develop other engineers
- Hands-on coding experience, with recent examples of contributing significantly to core features in a fast-paced, iterative environment
- Strong experience in communicating across teams, aligning stakeholders, and unblocking challenges to ensure business goals are met
- Experience working with remote and distributed teams across time zones
- Substantial overlap with the Pacific Time Zone
Desirable
- Experience working on a 0-to-1 product
- Experience working on B2B products
- Experience working on developer tools
- Experience working on data-heavy UX
What the job involves
- This is an 0-1 initiative
- With Postman Insights, our vision is to help guide a developer with little previous experience—in both the system being monitored and the Postman API Platform—to productively find and fix issues
- Our goal is to be able to help any developer locate API endpoints causing potential issues within 15 minutes of signing up for an account
- This will empower even a new developer to find and fix issues in their first days on the job, as easily as they can call an API today
- As we prepare to launch our open beta, we’re looking for a Staff Fullstack Software Engineer to help us bring our Postman Insights product to life
- Right now, we’ve launched an alpha to a small number of users and we’ve learned a lot from that launch
- To deliver our intended developer experience, we’ll need to iterate with our users to get the UX right
- The goal is to be the best product in the world for our main workflow ahead of beta launch
- We’re looking for an experienced engineer who is excited not only about hands-on building as we ship and iterate on a weekly basis to get our product ready for GA, but who can also serve as a role model and mentor to other engineers
- This role involves making key technical decisions and improvements to the system, as well as effectively making impact through influence within and across teams that span multiple time zones
- Lead the development of new capabilities for the Postman Insights product, driving both the frontend architecture and backend API development to improve user experience at scale
- Spend approximately 50% of your time coding, rapidly developing core features. The remaining time will be dedicated to mentoring and leveling up the engineering team, facilitating internal and external communication, and reviewing and making key technical decisions
- Architect and implement scalable, high-performance systems that enable rapid iteration and experimentation on core product features while maintaining system reliability
- Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence across the team. Be a role model for the team
- Facilitate clear and effective communication within your team and across cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment and unblocking any challenges to achieve business goals
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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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 values
- Create with curiosity: We repeatedly ask, “Why?” and challenge best practices. Asking “Why?” and “Why not?” is how we start each experimental journey, with a willingness to fail until we succeed. At Postman, no star is too far to shoot for
- Earn trust: We seek input first and listen before taking action. We're always open to perspectives because a diversity of thought and discussion improves our chances of discovering the best solutions
- Embrace constraints: We see constraints as an opportunity to be creative and resourceful with the people and tools we have available to us
- Win together: We count on each other, always offer help, and focus on solutions. We are a hybrid workplace spanning the globe, but Postmanauts are part of a tight, trusting community that appreciates each person's contributions toward Postman's mission
- Own & deliver: We learn from our mistakes and adapt with ease. We push ourselves to take bold but smart risks, and we celebrate failures for the learnings we gain as a result
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
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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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