Job Description

Who Are We?

Postman is an API platform for building and publishing APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better, secure APIs—faster.

Postman’s vision is to create a API-first world, where developers focus on developing API’s first before writing code. The API-first approach prioritizes APIs at the beginning of the software development process, instead of treating them as afterthoughts. Especially in the world order where developers are working remotely, this will help reduce the dependencies a great deal.

Postman is used by more than 30 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500.

The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices 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 API Platform | Sign Up for Free or connect with Postman on Twitter via @getpostman.

Postman recently closed a $225 million Series D investment round led by existing investor Insight Partners, and joined by new investors Coatue, Battery Ventures, and BOND, along with existing investors CRV and Nexus Venture Partners.

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 team is responsible for building and maintaining Postman’s performance testing product. Performance testing tool was released early this year and has gathered larger adoption among developers and continues to grow every week. The team is focused on identifying further use cases for our users and quickly iterating on the product to deliver the highest impact to our users and the business.

The alpha is rolled out to few thousands of users and the initial feedback is positive.

We’re looking for an experienced engineering leader to massively scale this product, make this available to the existing 4+ million of developer network of postman (and beyond) and work towards the monetization of the same.

What You’ll Do

• Scale & develop a team of diverse engineers to build the best-in-class Performance Testing tool
• Design and implement a highly scalable and reliable system that can cater to the needs of the millions of developers performing perf testing on their APIs.
• Optimize the user experience and performance of the Product by identifying the right initiatives to invest in to scale the product.
• Raise the bar for engineering standards, tooling and processes
• Partner with peers in Product, Design & Engineering to craft the best building blocks, guidelines, & standards, & evolve the team’s vision, mission, & strategy.
• Participate in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring & onboarding exceptional engineering talent.
• Define, measure & own key metrics for the performance of your and your team’s functional areas.
• Motivate & communicate across multiple levels. Bring out the best in the individuals on your team by enabling them to do the best work of their lives.
• Help engineers develop new skills & advance in their careers.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science related field or equivalent practical experience
• Min. 5 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS).
• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role building exceptional products that deliver a delightful experience for end customers.
• 2 years of experience in people management, team leadership role.
• Atleast one year experience in managing first line managers.
• Experience building Microservice architectures.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.
• Lots of smiles.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building user interfaces with modern web technologies
• Experience working on standardizing and solving common problems in engineering in a growing company.

Our Values:

At 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.