Staff Engineer, Postman
Developer Tooling
$240-290k
+ Competitive equity package
3+ days a week in office
Collaboration platform for API development
Be an early applicant
Collaboration platform for API development
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$240-290k
+ Competitive equity package
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
- The ideal candidate is a strategic, yet scrappy leader with attention to detail and a relentless drive for customer impact
- They should also be strong communicators who can influence other leaders
- They should have strong industry knowledge and bring best practices from the broader industry to the Postman Ecosystem
- Master’s degree in a Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
- The ideal candidate is also strongly aligned with our values
- Strong experience with relevant industry standards in the ecosystem space (auth, scopes, etc.)
- 10+ years of experience hands on coding and familiarity with common programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS)
- 10+ years of engineering experience building end-end back end services
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects with a meaningful impact on the business
- Exceptional problem solving, design, and analytical skills
- Demonstrated experience designing highly scalable systems
- Sense of humor
What the job involves
- We are looking for an exceptional Staff Engineer to be the first engineering hire on our ecosystem developer tooling team
- This leader will establish the technical vision of our apps platform, the developer tools needed to enable a community of ecosystem developers to build a wide variety of app functionality that multiply the impact of our product and build towards that vision in collaboration with our team of developers, product, design, partnerships and marketing
- We are looking for someone excited to be hands-on building a 0 → 1 product and delivering value to our users, who can later transition into leading a team of engineers down the line
- You’ll be accountable for strategy, technical roadmap and architecture of the platform
- You’ll work with multiple teams within Postman overseeing all the tools ecosystem developers need to be successful, including a developer portal, documentation, app configuration, sandbox environments, reporting/analytics & more
- Your role involves designing, implementing, and running critical services and products for the ecosystem
- We’re looking for a seasoned individual contributor leader who has done this in the past, can work effectively with product management and engineering leaders within the company and build a high quality platform
- They should mentor senior engineers within the org to grow the next level of engineering leadership
- They should be comfortable being very hands on and at the same being able to uplevel and provide high level guidance for others to execute
- Provide technical leadership for the architecture and help the teams build highly secure, scalable, reliable and performant systems that can cater to the needs of tens of thousands of ecosystem developers and hundreds of millions of end users who depend on those apps
- Provide technical leadership to identify dependencies and review key designs to ensure consistency with architecture and support for the business
- Lead the team to deliver on multiple projects in collaboration with key stakeholders
- Build an operational center of excellence with effective observability, considerations for scale and performance and focus on quality
- Be hands on and lead by example
- Partner with the Sr. EMs within the org and product leaders within the company
- Help the teams prioritize work and create a balanced roadmap
- Work closely with senior leadership to drive org design, set and execute the roadmap and influence the strategy
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to align on goals, drive engineering initiatives, and create broad organizational impact
- Be a mentor for senior engineers and help others grow
- Build the next level of engineering leadership
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 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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