Senior Engineering Manager, Postman
Ecosystems
3+ days a week in office
Collaboration platform for API development
Open for applications
Collaboration platform for API development
1001+ employees
Open for applications
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
- This position requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of developer ecosystems and a passion for delivering exceptional developer experiences
- If you’re passionate about building products that make an impact, have a proven track record of leading engineering teams to success, and thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments, we want you on our team!
- You are a seasoned engineering leader with a passion for building great products, fostering strong teams, and solving challenging technical problems. You have a track record of managing high-performing engineering teams and driving technical projects from concept to delivery geared towards helping 3rd party developers build impactful apps quickly and successfully (ex. Shopify, Atlassian, HubSpot, Slack, etc.)
- 10+ years of experience as a software engineer, with 5+ years in an engineering management or leadership role
- Experience building and launching 0 → 1 ecosystem features, platform extensibility (UI components, frameworks, APIs), developer tooling and/or products for external technical audiences
- Proven experience leading teams in fast-paced, agile environments
- Strong background in backend or frontend development (experience with React, Java a plus)
- Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor engineers, helping them grow and succeed
- Experience managing the full software development lifecycle, from design through production support
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
Desirable
- Familiarity with API development, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and container orchestration (Kubernetes)
- Prior experience working in a SaaS or cloud-based environment
- A passion for building systems that prioritize scalability, performance, and operational excellence
What the job involves
- Postman is seeking a strategic and results-driven engineering leader who is passionate about APIs, partnerships, ecosystems, collaboration, and developer success
- As the Sr Engineering Manager for Ecosystem, you’ll build and lead a talented group of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence while guiding the team to build scalable, reliable, high-performance features that power the future of our Ecosystem
- You’ll work closely with other engineering managers, product managers, and designers to drive the vision and execution of the product roadmap that will empower developers + partners to create rich, integrated experiences that will help teams create, collaborate, manage, and scale their APIs and solutions
- You will define our technical strategy to achieve our ecosystem goals, including how extensibility, integration frameworks and public APIs work at Postman, how integrations look, feel, and behave to our end users, and how customers discover, install, and buy apps via a marketplace
- Hire, manage, mentor, and coach several teams of engineers, helping them grow both technically and professionally
- Drive and uphold a culture of respect, integrity, inclusion, ownership, and accountability within the team
- Set clear goals and provide regular feedback to ensure your team is motivated and aligned with the product and company vision
- Design strategies for developer success across many areas, including those that are still in the early stages of finding their product-market fit
- Experiment, design, and influence rigorously the creation of new kinds of experiences for consumers and the new business models that will support builders, creators, partners, and developers
- Facilitate and coordinate the technical design and execution of complex features for Postman’s ecosystem platform ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability for millions of customers and partners everywhere
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineering managers, to deliver high-quality, customer-focused features
- Ensure engineering best practices are upheld, including code reviews, testing, and continuous delivery
- Own the engineering roadmap for Ecosystem, including Developer Tooling, Strategic Integrations and Marketplace, balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical investments
- Break down complex initiatives into clear, actionable milestones and manage the delivery of these projects on time
- Proactively identify and resolve roadblocks, ensuring your team meets its deadlines and delivers features with high quality
- Work closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, and design teams to ensure alignment on priorities and deliverables
- Foster open communication within the team, promoting collaboration and transparency
- Represent the engineering team in meetings with leadership, advocating for technical needs and constraints while aligning with broader company goals
- Ensure the reliability and performance of Ecosystem products by driving operational best practices for monitoring, logging, and incident response
- Optimize the team’s workflow by implementing automation and improving processes where needed
- Maintain a high level of code quality and system robustness by promoting test-driven development and continuous integration
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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