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.
The Opportunity
This is an 0-1 initiative. With Postman Insights, our vision is to help guide a developer with little previous experience—in both the system being monitored and the Postman API Platform—to productively find and fix issues. Our goal is to be able to help any developer locate API endpoints causing potential issues within 15 minutes of signing up for an account. This will empower even a new developer to find and fix issues in their first days on the job, as easily as they can call an API today.
As we prepare to launch our open beta, we’re looking for a full stack software engineer to help us bring our Postman Insights product to life. Right now, we’ve launched an alpha to a small number of users and we’ve learned a lot from that launch. To deliver our intended developer experience, we’ll need to iterate with our users to get the UX right. We’re looking for an engineer who can work on both the frontend and backend who is excited about shipping and iterating on a weekly basis to get our product useful for a larger number of users. The goal is to be the best product in the world for our main workflow ahead of beta launch. Read more here about our vision.
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
- Develop new capabilities for the Postman Insights product, owning both the frontend development and the backend APIs to improve user experience.
- Quickly prototype, experiment, and iterate on core product features to ensure continuous improvement and innovation.
- Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and Engineering teams to spec, build, test, and deliver new features efficiently.
- Contribute to architectural and design decisions alongside the team, particularly for the Postman Insights Agent, ensuring scalability and performance.
About You
To deliver our intended developer experience, we’ll need to iterate with our alpha users to get the UX right. We’re looking for an engineer who can work on both the frontend and backend who is excited about helping developers better understand their own systems.
- Strong implementation skills. Good grasp of scaling and data processing when it comes to both frontend and backend.
- Pragmatic. Gets excited about figuring out the minimal way to build the next feature.
- Good product sense. Deeply understands their user and is able to work with a designer and the rest of the team to make well-scoped plans for hitting user goals.
- Moves fast. We’re going to be prototyping and iterating with our alpha users weekly. We’re looking for someone who is excited about their cadence.
- Excellent communication skills. We’re a distributed engineering team and we’re going to be moving fast together. Good communication is key.
Past experience
- 5+ years of software development experience. At least one year launching user-facing products.
- Both frontend and backend development experience
- Track record of delivery. Impressive portfolio of past projects launched.
- Experience working independently. 2+ substantial past projects where they were the sole contributor responsible for delivering large parts of the work.
- Experience shipping B2B products.
- Substantial overlap with the Pacific Time Zone.
Our Values:
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?
This role is based in the greater San Francisco Bay area, and we offer a competitive base salary, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition to our pay-on-performance philosophy, we offer a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Salaries will vary outside of the listed metropolitan areas & the U.S.
Equal Opportunity
Postman 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.