Senior Engineer (Backend), Automation (Technical Lead Role)

Who Are We?

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 35 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500 such as Uber, AWS, Salesforce, Microsoft and many more. 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 offices in Boston, NYC, Berkeley, and Cupertino, as well as 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.

About the team:

The Automation Testing team builds and maintains multiple product lines which enable users to manually and automatically test their APIs and execute workflows. If you’ve used Postman and are familiar with Scheduled Collection Runs, Monitors, the Collection Runner, Postman CLI, or newman, then you're already familiar with some of the products this team works on! Building such a variety of products means the team is capable of thinking of their feet, learning new things quickly, and balancing competing priorities.

• The Postman Monitors and Scheduled Collection Runs cloud platform sends more than 100 million requests every month. That’s a sustained ~37 RPS, without missing a beat!
• The underlying database manages over 100 terabytes of data, and uses managed infrastructure to send requests from regions across the globe.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the design, build, and implementation of backend architecture to ensure the continued scale of the Collections. In the process, you’ll proactively identify and resolve any technical risk to the business.

• Collaborate with a dynamic, cross-functional teams that includes Product Managers, Designers, and Engineering leaders across multiple orgs.

• Lead the team architecture of multiple teams like collections, version control, mock servers and scale it further for our upcoming growth. Identify and champion initiatives that drive architectural improvement and innovation.

• Be an integral contributor to roadmap planning, coordinating with all stakeholders to align our products with strategic goals.

• Offer technical leadership and mentorship to your fellow engineers, sharing best practices and elevating our collective expertise. Set and maintain a high bar for operational excellence. 

• Take ownership of the maturation of existing systems by defining initiatives to improve availability, reliability, performance and maintainability.

• Rapidly construct functional prototypes to address both internal and external use-cases, driving our product’s evolution.

About You:

• 8+ years of experience writing production code and maintaining production systems.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures. Your knowledge of data management fundamentals and data storage principles is solid.

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects.

• Strong analytical and debugging skills.

• Passionate about mentoring and fostering a collaborative team environment.

• You can demystify technical concepts, effectively sharing knowledge with product managers, designers, support, and other engineers.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

• You’re mission-oriented, care about the details, and like to move fast.

• An insatiable curiosity moves you to understand how things work and to constantly learn, absorb, and share new knowledge.

• Experience working on a developer product is a plus.

• Experience working with NodeJS and TypeScript is a plus.

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency & 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.

What Else?

We offer competitive salary and benefits, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team. Enjoy full medical coverage, unlimited PTO, and a monthly lunch stipend. Yes, seriously. We want you to eat well wherever you’re at. Plus, our wellness program will help you stay healthy from your location with fitness-related reimbursements. Our frequent and fascinating virtual 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, and we want you to be part of it.

This position requires you to be present in our Bangalore office on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays.