Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 40 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster.
The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman.
P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.
With Postman Insights, our vision is to help all developers more quickly find and fix production issues. Our vision is to provide productive dashboards within 15 minutes of a developer signing up for an account. With our first product, we aim to provide the fastest, easiest way to find and fix failing APIs.
As we prepare for GA, we are looking for a scrappy product-focused engineer to improve our product and experiment with AI. Across our product and the core Postman API platform, we have access to some incredible data for improving developers’ debugging and development workflows. We are looking for a high-ownership fullstack engineer who is excited about building product features and motivated to experiment with AI.
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Who Are We?Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 25 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster.
The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on Twitter via @getpostman.
P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.
What you’ll do- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to improve the Postman Insights product.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering to build new AI-powered features for the Postman Insights product.
- Work directly with users to improve the Postman Insights experience.
- Own fullstack development for feature improvements and new feature prototypes.
- Collaborate cross-functionality to improve the integration of Postman Insights as part of the integrated Postman product experience.
- Contribute to architectural and design decisions alongside the team.
AI is the Wild West right now! There is so much happening and so much opportunity. We’re looking for a self-starting, scrappy engineer who is excited about learning quickly to keep up with all of the new developments, in order to make it easier than ever for developers to debug and maintain their systems.
About you:
- Strong track record of delivery. Has launched multiple user-facing products/features.
- Strong fullstack implementation skills. We’re looking for someone able to singlehandedly drive the initial development of substantial features.
- Scrappy prototyper. Able to spin up prototypes in a matter of days.
- Good grasp of AI technologies. Able to quickly learn and build on top of new technologies in the AI space.
- Good product sense. Is able to deeply understand the user and collaborate on solutions for addressing their needs.
- Excellent communication skills. We’re a distributed engineering team and we’re going to be moving fast together. Good communication is key.
- Good track record of mentorship.
Must have:
- Experience building product features. Both frontend and backend development experience.
- Experience launching multiple user-facing products in collaboration with Product and Design.
- Experience driving large projects: 2+ past projects where you were responsible for hands-on delivering large parts of the work and 2+ past projects with multiple engineers.
- Experience making architecture-level decisions based on scaling or other constraints.
- Experience working in a fast-paced, startup environment.
- Based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Nice-to-have:
- Experience working on developer tools.
The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $190,000 to $230,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
In addition to Postman's pay-on-performance philosophy, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team, Postman offers a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Along with that, our wellness programs will help you stay in the best of your physical and mental health. Our frequent and fascinating team-building events will keep you connected, while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about. We’re building a long-term company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves.
At Postman, we embrace a hybrid work model. For all roles based out of San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and New York, employees are expected to come into the office 3-days a week. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on balancing flexibility and collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers. The benefits of our hybrid office model will be shared knowledge, brainstorming sessions, communication, and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom.
Our ValuesAt Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.
Equal opportunityPostman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.
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