Software Engineer, Integrations

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

We are investing in an Engineering team at Postman to help cross-functional teams—such as Marketing, Product, Growth, Data—collect and analyze behavioral data in a meaningful and thoughtful way. This work will focus on implementation and maintenance of first- and third-party integrations for numerous platforms, properties, and intersecting with a wide array of teams at Postman. We are growing this team for a number of reasons, notably:

1. Help cross-functional teams meet their goals by implementing new behavioral analytics and contextual tagging of pages and UI
2. Help make the experience better for our visitors by implementing A/B testing, dynamic content, and AI-sourced interlinking
3. Utilize new data collection methods using conversion APIs, integrations with CDP and data warehouses
4. and more!

In effect: we have dozens of properties and web apps and even more first- and third-party integrations. The list is growing, and challenges in keeping up with browser opinions, governmental requirements, performance—and new ways to connect it all—have us looking for an experienced engineer that has worked with integrations, and can focus on it deeply. You would be joining a stable and established team of distributed engineers that has been together for over 5 years.

What You’ll Do

To achieve our goals, we’ll need an experienced and thoughtful engineer with a special interest and aptitude for software focused on integrations. We are looking for someone who cares deeply about the details and spends time building that interconnective tissue between the front-end and various consuming services. We need an engineer who can be somewhat self-directed and who is proactive, creative, and can collaborate with engineers and non-engineers alike. Your day-to-day work will be smack in the middle of Legal, Marketing, Product and Data teams, and deeply inform the telemetry of numerous campaigns.

Creativity and tenacity are key on this team, and with this work. We are looking for someone who is comfortable in the unknown—and there are a lot of unknowns!—and figure out ways to get old and new technologies to work together. You will be leveraging your experience, as well as leveling up in new technologies, platforms and systems.

More specifically, this role would be:

• Implementing, maintaining, sunsetting, and keeping an inventory of third-party scripts, pixels and trackers.
• Maintaining our first-party, universal JavaScript analytics SDKs.
• Tracking and improving performance impacts of above.
• Implementing third-party Conversion APIs.
• Implementing integrations with our third-party tools, databases and various microservices via various API protocols.
• Working on multiple projects in phases, and iterating toward full-functionality.
• For someone with a real drive and excitement for development in the world of UI instrumentation, analytics, integrations, compliance, and the ever-shifting landscape of browsers’ opinions.

About you

Must have:

• A solid and deep understanding of universal JavaScript. You have been working in JavaScript for years, across Node, web apps, plugins and more.
• Experience in developing, maintaining, and deploying serverless web apps.
• A solid and deep understanding of APIs. You have consumed, designed, built and maintained various protocols.
• Experience in ReactJS.
• Experience in implementing third-party pixels and trackers.
• A strong skillset in collaborating and communicating on complex integrations with cross-functional teams that are often not engineers.
• A solid understanding of HTML, and reusable components.

Nice-to-haves would be experience in:

• NextJS, GatsbyJS, PHP (for WordPress blog)
• AWS (Gateways, Lambdas, S3, Cloudfront)
• GitHub Actions
• Conversion APIs, and working with channels such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn
• Segment CDP (or similar)
• Looker dashboards (or similar)

The manager for this role is based in San Francisco; the current team is distributed across the United States and Spain.

The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $130,000 to $150,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. 

What Else?

In addition to Postman's pay-on-performance philosophy, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team, Postman offers a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Along with that, our wellness programs will help you stay in the best of your physical and mental health. If you have little ones in your family, the creche allowance can help in supporting your work-life balance. Our frequent and fascinating team-building events will keep you connected, while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about. We’re building a long-term company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves. 

At Postman, we embrace a hybrid work model. For all roles based out of San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Bangalore, Noida, Hyderabad, and New York, employees are expected to come into the office 3-days a week. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on balancing flexibility and collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers. The benefits of our hybrid office model will be shared knowledge, brainstorming sessions, communication, and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom.

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.

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.