Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 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 offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman 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.
Product Engineering at Postman is a multi-team organization responsible for building and evolving core product experiences that enable API collaboration across the platform. Serving more than 40 million users, our teams work across the API lifecycle including development, testing, prototyping, discovery, distribution, and change management to deliver reliable, intuitive, and scalable products.
Product Engineering teams own tier-0 and tier-1 business-critical systems, collectively handling approximately 21 million requests daily, with scale and complexity continuing to grow. The work directly impacts end-user experience, platform reliability, and key business outcomes such as Monthly Active Users, self-serve revenue, and sales-assisted revenue.
We are looking for a Senior Engineer for Product Engineering teams who is passionate about building high-quality products at scale. In this role, you will take end-to-end ownership of key initiatives, working closely with product managers, designers, and cross-functional engineering partners to solve real user problems and deliver impactful product outcomes.
You will contribute strongly to technical design and hands-on implementation, bringing a product mindset to engineering decisions. This includes building scalable and reliable systems, improving performance and quality, and continuously raising the bar on user experience. You will also help shape technical direction within your team while balancing execution with long-term maintainability.
Our ambition is to enable 100 million connected developers worldwide. If you enjoy operating at the intersection of product and engineering, taking ownership from idea to delivery, and building products that developers love, we’d love for you to join us.
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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. 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, Austin, Tokyo, Bangalore, Hyderabad, London, 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.
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.
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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