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:

The workspaces team is responsible for establishing workspaces as a source of truth in Postman. Workspaces are the core of our Postman API Platform and are responsible for enabling seamless API collaboration. With more than 30M users on our platform, this team is responsible for solving challenges in API collaboration across multiple pillars like API development, testing, prototyping, discovery, distribution & change management. The team owns tier-0/1 business critical systems handling ~21M requests on a daily basis and this will just continue to grow. The work of this team directly impacts Postman’s end users, experience and business in multiple ways thereby contributing towards our larger organization goals like Monthly Active Users, Self-serve revenue & Sales-serve revenue.

We are looking for an experienced engineering leader who will help in taking workspaces to next level. This person will lead a key set of initiatives that needs close working with the community, product and business stakeholders to improve the end user experience, constantly strive towards excellence to establish Postman as the best tool for API collaboration. Apart from this, he/she would oversees the complete technical landscape to deliver the best integrated product experience for our Postman users, own & drive the engineering/technical strategy for the team to not just meet product requirements but help it scale for next 2-5 years by having futuristic lens.

Our goal is to have 100M connected developers and we want to you to join us in this amazing journey.

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.

This position requires you to be present in our Bangalore office on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays.