Full Stack Software Engineer, Postman
API Client
$177.6-240.3k
+ Equity
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
$177.6-240.3k
+ 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
- To achieve our goals, we’ll need a talented, experienced, and thoughtful fullstack engineer who cares deeply about the details and spends time building user interfaces that delight users
- We’ll need someone who relentlessly leads by example on execution and ships impactful changes regularly to the user experience of Postman
- 3+ years of experience of full stack development; Depth and quality of experience is more important than number of years
- Track record of delivering impactful and engaging user experiences that delight users
- Deep expertise in building the modern web with JavaScript / Typescript, HTML, and CSS. You likely have used libraries or frameworks like React or Next.js, but we care much more about the fundamentals than the tech stack
- Excellent communication skills. We’re a remote-first team and we’re going to be moving fast together. Good communication is key
- Detail oriented. We have to care about the details, and while we don’t expect you to be a designer, you need to care about the product experience that our teams are shipping
- Customer obsession. As we are a core product with years of muscle memory, we need an engineer who is able and willing to leverage the voice of the customer to expedite decision making, develop conviction, and most importantly delight our user
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area
What the job involves
- The API client is the core beating heart of the Postman product experience. It is what many users perceive as the entirety of Postman (although there is so much more!), and we have ambitious goals in 2024 and beyond about delighting developers more with the API client as well as simplifying this central product experience
- We have three thematic goals for that we plan to achieve, and hopefully you will have a hand in doing so
- Delight the Developer. The developer is critical to the success of Postman, and we intend to get closer to them, both in GitHub with quick replies and tight feedback loops, but even more importantly with our feature delivery, addressing long-standing requests and continuing to differentiate on our core product experience
- Simplify request sending and debugging. Postman has grown into an incredibly powerful tool, but great tools are simple for power users and new users alike. We’ll need to pare down this experience to the essentials and progressively disclose complexity to powerful features when users need them, and no sooner
- Build the multi-protocol future. We have spent the last few years building new request protocols (like GraphQL, gRPC, and Websockets), and in 2024 we’ll more tightly integrate these protocols into the full Postman experience
- We have built a ubiquitous, loved developer product that is a crucial piece of the broader Postman experience
- We are responsible for everything around building the engine that is centrally responsible for enabling users to send and debug requests, regardless of protocol
- Nearly 80% of Postman’s users utilize the work of the API Client team
- We have plans to double the engineering organization in the next year and if you want an early seat on the rocket ship, this is the right place to be
- As indicated previously, 2024 is a year where we want to simplify and pare down the core experience we deliver on the API client, and so we need an engineer who can be somewhat self-directed and who has great taste, judgment, and can iterate (and ship!) quickly to achieve the iterative simplification that we will achieve with the API client product
- To quote Frank Slootman (former Snowflake CEO):
- “Strategy is overrated and execution is severely underrated. Mostly all companies plan well and mostly all companies fail at execution. Make execution the king in your company.”
- – Frank Slootman, Amp it Up
- Execution is key on the API client team. We’ll need someone who relentlessly leads by example on execution and ships impactful changes regularly to the user experience of Postman
- We’ll progress and continuously improve towards achieving our goals and metrics and most importantly we’ll deliver an increasingly delightful product experience that developers love to use
- Own and deliver. Deliver improvements to the API client core product experience that help us achieve our goals around simplicity
- Deliver iterative value. Deliver small chunks of iterative value towards simplicity, bit-by-bit, and not a sweeping re-design
- Own end-to-end workflows. Own end-to-end and understand core workflows, driving improvement to them and delivering a re-designed and simpler experience (initial targets: using variables, error resolution, and keyboard navigability)
- Deeply understand the user. Collaborate and work with end users (developers!) using Postman to understand their core workflows and then use that knowledge to improve our product
- Learn and grow. Broaden your knowledge of API client and the domain over time, starting with simplicity but eventually branching out into driving improvement to core workflows, sending requests across protocols (GraphQL, gRPC, etc.), and
- Collaborate across boundaries and geographies. Collaborate on team processes to streamline collaboration across US and India team members
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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