Senior Software Engineer, Postman
Client SDK, UI Platform
3 days a week in office
Collaboration platform for API development
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Collaboration platform for API development
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
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
- 5-10 years of professional software engineering experience
- 2+ years in a similar senior role
- Deep understanding of modern web practices and associated technologies (JavaScript, TypeScript, React, etc.)
- Experience with design systems, accessibility compliance (WCAG 2.1 AA), or internationalization at scale
- You'll communicates clearly and listens effectively. You seek new perspectives and build trust with your colleagues
- Loves the challenge of constraints and excels at finding creative solutions
- Takes ownership of problems, not solutions, and celebrates success as a team
- Has demonstrated expertise in code quality, performance optimization, and engineering excellence
- Has experience designing and implementing maintainable, scalable frontend architectures for complex applications, including component libraries and SDKs that can be effectively reused across multiple systems
- Has a proven track record of raising the quality bar in previous roles through both technical solutions and positive cultural impact
Desirable
- Experience with cross-platform applications (Electron or similar) and understanding the unique challenges of desktop/web hybrid environments
- Creating widely-adopted (open source) libraries/SDKs with 1000+ active developers
What the job involves
- The Client Platform team is seeking a Senior Frontend Engineer to join our UI Platform charter and help us raise the quality bar across our frontend ecosystem
- You'll establish engineering excellence through improved architecture, performance optimization, and maintainable code patterns that ensure our platform delivers exceptional experiences
- You'll work alongside other senior engineers to own different aspects of our UI Platform (design system, accessibility, internationalization, theming, etc.)
- The Client Platform team is a global engineering organization responsible for creating a "paved path" for all Postmanauts to develop and release web-based applications
- Our platform is the foundation that 240+ engineers at Postman rely on daily to deliver new features and improvements to over 40 million customers
- You'll design and implement scalable, maintainable front-end solutions, focused on the presentation layer
- Design system and component library
- Application shell & layout
- Specialized UI components (code editor, text editor, data grid)
- Global UI patterns
- Accessibility
- Internationalization/localization
- Theming/styling architecture
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Own technical initiatives end-to-end from design through delivery and maintenance
- Establish best practices and standards for SDK development
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure SDK meets product requirements
- Mentor other engineers and contribute to technical decision-making
- Drive technical initiatives that enhance the SDK's performance, reliability, and developer experience
- Identify and proactively address technical debt and opportunities for improvement in our platform
- Participate in production support and incident resolution for SDK-related issues
Salary benchmarks
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
(Founder & 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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