Engineering Manager, Postman
Flows
$200-300k
+ Equity
3+ days a week in office
Collaboration platform for API development
Open for applications
Collaboration platform for API development
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$200-300k
+ 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
- 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
- 8+ years of experience as a software engineer, with 2+ years in an engineering management or leadership role
- Proven experience leading teams in fast-paced, agile environments
- Strong background in backend or frontend development (experience with modern JavaScript frameworks, Kubernetes, or AWS is 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
- Experience in developer tools or building products for technical audiences
- 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
- We are looking for an experienced and motivated Engineering Manager to lead our Postman Flows team.
- In this role, you’ll 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 for the Flows product.
- You’ll work closely with other engineering managers, product managers, and designers to drive the vision and execution of the product roadmap
- Team Leadership & Development
- Manage, mentor, and coach a team of engineers, helping them grow both technically and professionally
- Drive a culture of innovation, 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
- Technical Leadership
- Facilitate and coordinate the technical design and execution of complex features for Postman Flows, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability
- 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
- Project Management
- Own the engineering roadmap for Postman Flows, 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
- Collaboration & Communication
- 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
- Operational Excellence
- Ensure the reliability and performance of Postman Flows 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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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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