SummaryBy Outscal
Postman is looking for a Senior Frontend Engineer to join their IDE Platform team and build capabilities for their VSCode extension. You'll need 5+ years of experience with large-scale JavaScript applications, React, JavaScript, Node.js, and strong web & frontend fundamentals. Passion for API ecosystems and customer-centricity are essential.
Postman is the world’s leading collaboration platform for API development. Postman simplifies each step of the API-building process and streamlines collaboration. More than 35 million developers and 500,000 organizations worldwide currently use Postman.
Our customers are doing more and more astounding things with Postman every day, and as a result, we are growing rapidly.
About the Team
Our IDE Platform team is responsible for bringing the power of Postman to where our developers implement their APIs - their IDE. This team develops and expands Postman’s offering across different IDEs and platforms. Our VSCode Extension has so far crossed 850K+ downloads in less than a year.
We're seeking an experienced software engineer who will lead initiatives contributing to our VS Code extension and continued expansion and improvements to these new products.
This is an opportunity to be a member of a team that owns and delivers new products that will be used by millions of developers worldwide
What you'll be doing:
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Design and build capabilities and features that bring the power of Postman to IDEs like VS Code.
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Design and build for high performance, reliability, security & user experience.
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Collaborate with early-stage adopters, iterate fast, and deliver incremental improvements.
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Work on business-critical products that will be used by millions of users.
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Identify and advocate for better software engineering practices.
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Hold the bar high for product quality and mentor your teammates to meet this bar.
You would be a great fit if you:
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Have prior experience (5+ years) working on large-scale JavaScript applications
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Are proficient with React, JavaScript, Node.js and have a strong understanding of web & frontend fundamentals & infrastructure
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Love building products that could revolutionalize the API ecosystem
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Have a bias towards action and has a track record of getting stuff done under constraints
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Have a customer-centric mindset and would like to take on challenges irrespective of the difficulty level
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Have an experimental mindset and are willing to fail at times, in order to learn