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Engineering Manager, Desktop Platform

Who Are We?

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 30 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. 

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

About the Role

The desktop platform team is tasked with creating and supporting the technologies and approaches that enable our web-based applications to be deployed as standalone, native desktop applications. You’ll lead a team of engineers who are developing a framework across the Mac, Windows, and Linux OSes to host JavaScript/HTML applications and provide OS-level hooks and libraries to provide a more capable, natively integrated platform. You’ll work closely with partner engineering and product teams to gather requirements, plan a technical roadmap, and ultimately execute a migration to this new platform.

About You

  • Multiple years of management experience
  • Ability to grow and develop an engineering team through mentorship, coaching, and staffing decisions
  • Communicating and collaborating with cross functional partners in engineering, product management and other areas
  • Proven track record of delivering large engineering projects to production, including re-architectures and migrations of existing products
  • Experienced with desktop application development, preferably on multiple platforms
  • Comfortable with web technologies and various JavaScript engines(Node, V8, JavaScriptCore, etc.)
  • Able to create and communicate team goals and priorities, and align them with broader company themes
  • Developing a long-term vision and roadmap that meets the needs of the team and organization/company 

About the Role

  • 8+ years in the tech space
  • Program management experience - multi-quarter planning and execution
  • Execution of large technology migrations
  • Experience leading remote teams
  • Familiarity with mobile app development and mobile app stores
  • Previous work on platform and developer infrastructure teams

Our Values:

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency & 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.

What Else?

This role is based in the greater San Francisco Bay area, and the reasonably estimated salary for this role ranges from $216,000 to $255,000 plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition to our pay-on-performance philosophy, we offer a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Salaries will vary outside of the listed metropolitan areas & the U.S.

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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