Senior Engineering Manager, Ecosystems

2 Months ago • 10 Years + • Software Development & Engineering

Job Summary

Job Description

As the Senior Engineering Manager for Ecosystems, you will lead a team of engineers to build scalable, reliable, and high-performance features. You will collaborate with other engineering managers, product managers, and designers to execute the product roadmap. This includes defining the technical strategy for extensibility, integration frameworks, and public APIs, ensuring that integrations are user-friendly, and helping customers discover and install apps via a marketplace. Responsibilities include team leadership and development, technical leadership, project management, collaboration and communication, and operational excellence. The goal is to empower developers and partners to create rich, integrated experiences.
Must have:
  • 10+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ in leadership.
  • Experience building 0 to 1 ecosystem features, platform extensibility, developer tooling.
  • Proven experience leading teams in agile environments.
  • Strong background in backend or frontend development.
  • Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor engineers.
  • Experience managing the full software development lifecycle.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Good to have:
  • Familiarity with API development, cloud infrastructure.
  • Prior experience working in a SaaS or cloud-based environment.
  • A passion for building systems that prioritize scalability, performance, and operational excellence.

Job Details

Who Are We?

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 40 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 X 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

Postman is seeking a strategic and results-driven engineering leader who is passionate about APIs, partnerships, ecosystems, collaboration, and developer success.  

As the Sr. Engineering Manager for Ecosystem, you’ll build and lead a talented group of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence while guiding the team to build scalable, reliable, high-performance features that power the future of our Ecosystem. You’ll work closely with other engineering managers, product managers, and designers to drive the vision and execution of the product roadmap that will empower developers + partners to create rich, integrated experiences that will help teams create, collaborate, manage, and scale their APIs and solutions.  This position requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of developer ecosystems and a passion for delivering exceptional developer experiences.  You will define our technical strategy to achieve our ecosystem goals, including how extensibility, integration frameworks and public APIs work at Postman, how integrations look, feel, and behave to our end users, and how customers discover, install, and buy apps via a marketplace. 

What You’ll Do

Team Leadership & Development

  • Hire, manage, mentor, and coach several teams of engineers, helping them grow both technically and professionally.
  • Drive and uphold a culture of respect, integrity, inclusion, ownership, and accountability within the team.
  • Set clear goals and provide regular feedback to ensure your team is motivated and aligned with the product and company vision.
  • Design strategies for developer success across many areas, including those that are still in the early stages of finding their product-market fit.
  • Experiment, design, and influence rigorously the creation of new kinds of experiences for consumers and the new business models that will support builders, creators, partners, and developers.

Technical Leadership

  • Facilitate and coordinate the technical design and execution of complex features for Postman’s ecosystem platform ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability for millions of customers and partners everywhere.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, designers, and other engineering managers, to deliver high-quality, customer-focused features.
  • Ensure engineering best practices are upheld, including code reviews, testing, and continuous delivery.

Project Management

  • Own the engineering roadmap for Ecosystem, including Developer Tooling, Strategic Integrations and Marketplace, balancing short-term delivery with long-term technical investments.
  • Break down complex initiatives into clear, actionable milestones and manage the delivery of these projects on time.
  • Proactively identify and resolve roadblocks, ensuring your team meets its deadlines and delivers features with high quality.

Collaboration & Communication

  • Work closely with stakeholders across engineering, product, and design teams to ensure alignment on priorities and deliverables.
  • Foster open communication within the team, promoting collaboration and transparency.
  • Represent the engineering team in meetings with leadership, advocating for technical needs and constraints while aligning with broader company goals.

Operational Excellence

  • Ensure the reliability and performance of Ecosystem products by driving operational best practices for monitoring, logging, and incident response.
  • Optimize the team’s workflow by implementing automation and improving processes where needed.
  • Maintain a high level of code quality and system robustness by promoting test-driven development and continuous integration.

About You

You are a seasoned engineering leader with a passion for building great products, fostering strong teams, and solving challenging technical problems. You have a track record of managing high-performing engineering teams and driving technical projects from concept to delivery geared towards helping 3rd party developers build impactful apps quickly and successfully (ex. Shopify, Atlassian, HubSpot, Slack, etc.)

Must Have Qualifications:

  • 10+ years of experience as a software engineer, with 5+ years in an engineering management or leadership role.
  • Experience building and launching 0 → 1 ecosystem features, platform extensibility (UI components, frameworks, APIs), developer tooling and/or products for external technical audiences.
  • Proven experience leading teams in fast-paced, agile environments.
  • Strong background in backend or frontend development (experience with React, Java a plus).
  • Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor engineers, helping them grow and succeed.
  • Experience managing the full software development lifecycle, from design through production support.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

Nice-to-Have:

  • Familiarity with API development, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
  • Prior experience working in a SaaS or cloud-based environment.
  • A passion for building systems that prioritize scalability, performance, and operational excellence.

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.

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