Senior Full Stack Engineer, Discovery

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’re making it easy for all of the developers on Earth to get started with public APIs in seconds.

The Postman API Network is the world’s largest repository of APIs, with tens of thousands of APIs to check the weather, look up sports scores, book events, plan travel, send payments, and more. As developers, we know there’s no better feeling in the world than seeing your code work, especially when you’re integrating with someone else’s API. We’re making it easy for developers to achieve that outcome as quickly as possible.

We’re looking for an experienced engineer who is excited not only about hands-on building as we ship and iterate on a weekly basis to get our product ready for GA, but who can also serve as a role model and mentor to other engineers. This role involves making key technical decisions and improvements to the system, as well as effectively making impact through influence within and across teams that span multiple time zones.

What you’ll do

• Lead the development of new capabilities for the Postman API Network, driving both the frontend architecture and backend API development to improve user experience at scale.

• Architect and implement scalable, high-performance systems that enable rapid iteration and experimentation on core product features while maintaining system reliability.

• Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence across the team. Be a role model for the team.

• Facilitate clear and effective communication within your team and across cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment and unblocking any challenges to achieve business goals.

About You

We’re looking for a skilled engineer who combines technical leadership with hands-on coding. You excel at solving complex problems, mentoring others, and delivering scalable systems quickly and pragmatically, driving high-impact projects from concept to completion.

• Product and user-focused mindset. You have the ability to deeply understand your users’ needs and are skilled at translating them into well-scoped technical solutions.

• Moves fast. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are excited about rapidly iterating on features to achieve business goals.

• Pragmatic problem solver. You get excited about figuring out the minimal, most efficient way to build the next feature.

• Expert in system architecture. You have a deep understanding of building scalable, high-performance systems that allow rapid iteration and experimentation.

• Strong communication skills. You excel at facilitating clear and effective communication within your team and across departments, ensuring alignment and proactively unblocking challenges to achieve business goals.

• Remote collaboration. You effectively collaborate across time zones, ensuring team engagement and alignment.

Must have:

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

• Proficient with React, JavaScript, and Node.js.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems and cloud architectures.

• Track record of delivering high-impact, user-facing products.

• Passionate about mentoring and developing other engineers.

• Coding experience, with recent examples of contributing significantly to core features in a fast-paced, iterative environment.

• Strong experience in communicating across teams, aligning stakeholders, and unblocking challenges to ensure business goals are met.

• Experience working with remote and distributed teams across time zones.

• Located between ET and CET.

Nice-to-have:

• Proficient with TypeScript

• Experience working on scaling products.

• Experience working in a two-sided network

• Experience working on developer tools.

This role is based in the greater New York City area. The reasonably estimated salary can be requested anytime. 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.