Senior Engineer II (Backend), Workspaces

Postman is the world's leading collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API & streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster. More than 35 million developers & 500,000 organizations worldwide use Postman today, and we continue to strive humbly towards our mission of 100 million connected developers & serving companies as they seek to innovate in an API-first world. Our customers are doing more and more astounding things with the Postman product every day, and as a result, we are growing rapidly.

We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture & our vision at Postman.

About the Team:

At Postman, the Collections team stands as a pivotal pillar within our product engineering domain, seamlessly facilitating optimal functionality across the entire organization. Revered as a de-facto standard for API artifacts within the developer community, Postman collections don’t just stop there. Our team diligently oversees every aspect related to collections, embracing an array of functionalities including - but not limited to - documentation, forking, watching, merging, and mocking.

Your journey with us won’t just be about managing data but steering through massive data volumes with robust systems, ensuring every user enjoys a seamless and delightful experience. As we cater to over 5 million active monthly users, we delve into intricacies and navigate through challenges, crafting solutions that escalate our scalability and enhance our product's complexity. Dive into our recent blog post to explore how we untangled our storage challenges, crafting a narrative of problem-solving and innovation.

We don’t just manage collections; we create experiences, ensuring that every interaction is smooth, every functionality is intuitive, and every user finds value. Come be a part of our journey and define the future of APIs with us!

What You’ll Do:

• 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.

• Collaborate with a dynamic, cross-functional teams that includes Product Managers, Designers, and Engineering leaders across multiple orgs.

• 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.

• Be an integral contributor to roadmap planning, coordinating with all stakeholders to align our products with strategic goals.

• 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. 

• Take ownership of the maturation of existing systems by defining initiatives to improve availability, reliability, performance and maintainability.

• Rapidly construct functional prototypes to address both internal and external use-cases, driving our product’s evolution.

About You

• 8+ years of experience writing production code and maintaining production systems.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures. Your knowledge of data management fundamentals and data storage principles is solid.

• Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical projects.

• Strong analytical and debugging skills.

• Passionate about mentoring and fostering a collaborative team environment.

• You can demystify technical concepts, effectively sharing knowledge with product managers, designers, support, and other engineers.

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

• You’re mission-oriented, care about the details, and like to move fast.

• An insatiable curiosity moves you to understand how things work and to constantly learn, absorb, and share new knowledge.

• Experience working on a developer product is a plus.

• Experience working with NodeJS and TypeScript is a plus.