Staff Engineer, Developer Tooling

2 Months ago • 10 Years + • Software Development & Engineering • $240,000 PA - $290,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

As a Staff Engineer, you will provide technical leadership for the architecture, helping teams build secure, scalable, reliable, and performant systems. You will lead in prioritizing work, create a balanced roadmap, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive engineering initiatives. Mentorship and building the next level of engineering leadership are also key responsibilities. The role requires hands-on involvement, leading by example, and influencing strategy. This includes ensuring the systems cater to the needs of tens of thousands of ecosystem developers and hundreds of millions of end users.
Must have:
  • 10+ years hands-on coding experience.
  • Experience leading cross-functional projects.
Perks:
  • Full medical coverage.
  • Flexible PTO.
  • Wellness reimbursement.
  • Monthly lunch stipend.
  • Wellness programs.
  • Creche allowance.
  • Team-building events.
  • Donation-matching program.

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.

What You'll Do

  • Technical Leadership
    • Provide technical leadership for the architecture and help the teams build highly secure, scalable, reliable and performant systems that can cater to the needs of tens of thousands of ecosystem developers and hundreds of millions of end users who depend on those apps.
    • Provide technical leadership to identify dependencies and review key designs to ensure consistency with architecture and support for the business
    • Lead the team to deliver on multiple projects in collaboration with key stakeholders
    • Build an operational center of excellence with effective observability, considerations for scale and performance and focus on quality
    • Be hands on and lead by example
  • Prioritization and Roadmap
    • Partner with the Sr. EMs within the org and product leaders within the company
    • Help the teams prioritize work and create a balanced roadmap
  • Collaboration
    • Work closely with senior leadership to drive org design, set and execute the roadmap and influence the strategy
    • Collaborate with cross functional teams to align on goals, drive engineering initiatives, and create broad organizational impact
  • Mentorship
    • Be a mentor for senior engineers and help others grow
    • Build the next level of engineering leadership

About You

  • Master’s degree in a Computer Science or equivalent industry experience
  • Strong experience with relevant industry standards in the ecosystem space (auth, scopes, etc.)
  • 10+ years of experience hands on coding and familiarity with common programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS)
  • 10+ years of engineering experience building end-end back end services
  • Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects with a meaningful impact on the business
  • Exceptional problem solving, design, and analytical skills
  • Demonstrated experience designing highly scalable systems
  • Sense of humor

The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $240,000 to 290,000, 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.

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