The Opportunity
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
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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.
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Collaborate with a dynamic, cross-functional teams that includes Product Managers, Designers, and Engineering leaders across multiple orgs.
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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.
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Be an integral contributor to roadmap planning, coordinating with all stakeholders to align our products with strategic goals.
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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.
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Take ownership of the maturation of existing systems by defining initiatives to improve availability, reliability, performance and maintainability.
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Rapidly construct functional prototypes to address both internal and external use-cases, driving our product’s evolution.
About You
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8+ years of experience writing production code and maintaining production systems.
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Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures. Your knowledge of data management fundamentals and data storage principles is solid.
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Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects.
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Strong analytical and debugging skills.
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Passionate about mentoring and fostering a collaborative team environment.
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You can demystify technical concepts, effectively sharing knowledge with product managers, designers, support, and other engineers.
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Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
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You’re mission-oriented, care about the details, and like to move fast.
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An insatiable curiosity moves you to understand how things work and to constantly learn, absorb, and share new knowledge.
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Experience working on a developer product is a plus.
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Experience working with NodeJS and TypeScript is a plus
This position requires you to be present in our Bangalore office on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays.
