Senior Engineer

About the job

Who Are We?
Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 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 Opportunity
API Network is a one-stop solution for discovering, learning about, and using the APIs you need across public, internal, and partner workspaces. Postman’s Public API Network is the world's largest network of public APIs. Private Network is a centralized, internal catalog that serves as an organization's single source of truth for corporate APIs, internal workspaces, collections, and environments.

We’re looking for a Senior Engineer (Full Stack) who thrives in building seamless, high-performance user experiences and goes beyond silos to deliver value to users.

What You’ll Do

• Shape the Future of APIs: Contribute to the development of cutting-edge APIs and products in collaboration with a dynamic, cross-functional team that includes Product Managers, Designers, and Engineers specializing in Support, Quality, Security, and Platform.
• Innovate Through Prototypes: Rapidly construct functional prototypes to address both internal and external use-cases, driving our product’s evolution.
• Lead & Mentor: Offer technical leadership and mentorship to your fellow engineers, sharing best practices and elevating our collective expertise.
• Shape Our Path: Be an integral contributor to roadmap planning, coordinating with all stakeholders to align our products with strategic goals.
• Own Systems Architecting: Lead the architecting and design of collection systems, partnering with stakeholders to ensure robust functionality and strategic integration.
• Enhance System Maturity: Take ownership of the maturation of existing systems, defining initiatives to enhance functionality, reliability, and performance.
• Drive Architectural Evolution: Identify and champion initiatives that drive architectural improvement and innovation.

About You

• Cloud and Distributed Systems Expert: Experience with cloud computing and distributed systems, having worked on customer-facing systems at scale.
• Database Maestro: Knowledge of database fundamentals and data storage principles.
• Experienced Builder: At least 6+ years of experience building applications in high-level programming languages—especially JavaScript. We primarily code in JavaScript.
• Versatile Developer: A fair understanding of front-end technologies, networking, analytics at a fundamental level, and proficiency in Backend engineering.
• Passionate Technologist: Driven by a passion for utilizing various tools and technologies to devise end-to-end solutions.
• Code Craftsperson: Code is testable, maintainable, and easy to understand by others.
• Communicator: Can demystify technical concepts, effectively sharing knowledge with product managers, designers, support, and other engineers.
• Curious Learner: An insatiable curiosity moves you to understand how things work and to constantly learn, absorb, and share new knowledge.