Software Engineer (Fullstack), Workspaces
Who Are We?
Postman is the world’s leading API platform. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster. More than 35 million developers and 500,000 organisations worldwide use Postman today.
Our customers are doing more and more astounding things with the Postman product every day, and as a result, we are growing rapidly.
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.
What You'll Do:
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Implement and maintain features, improve performance and quality of Postman’s products
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Interact with Product, Design and Engineering teams to spec, build, test and deliver new features
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Improve quality and reliability by improving existing tests and writing new ones
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Work on the scalability aspects of features and services that collection team owns.
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Work with the manager for the roadmap and SLAs for the micro-services that you own.
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Perform code reviews and advocate better practises for software engineering by mentoring and encouraging others around you to build a quality product.
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Design & build any additional internal tooling required to ease the development & maintenance of the product.
About You:
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You have at least 3 years of experience developing complex, distributed software applications at scale.
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You’ve experience with high level programming languages - e.g. Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go. We code primarily in Node.js and Python.
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Strong understanding of web fundamentals.
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Strong knowledge of Database fundamentals especially on the performance aspects such as optimising queries, schema design, indexing, caching.
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Experience with cloud computing and distributed systems
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You possess strong Computer Science fundamentals - Algorithms, Networking and Operating Systems, and are familiar with various JavaScript tools, frameworks, and development practices.
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Has a point of view and is comfortable and prior experience in collaborating and respectfully challenging other stakeholders, such as PM, EM etc.
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You write testable, maintainable code that’s easy to understand.
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You have curiosity about how things work and to learn new things.
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Good written and verbal communication.
Good To Have:
- Previous experience with systems with scale and familiarity with problems related to scalability and performance
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A learning mindset and the willingness to do beyond what’s being told.
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An innate curiosity about how things work under the hood.
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Alignment with our Values.
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.
What Else?
We offer competitive salary and benefits, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team. Enjoy full medical coverage, unlimited PTO, and a monthly lunch stipend. Yes, seriously. We want you to eat well wherever you’re at. Plus, our wellness program will help you stay healthy from your location with fitness-related reimbursements. Our frequent and fascinating virtual 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, and we want you to be part of it.
This position requires you to be present in our Bangalore office on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays.
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