Senior Engineer (Backend), Automation (Technical Lead Role)

Lead backend architecture design and implementation for automation testing, collaborating with cross-functional teams, mentoring engineers, and driving architectural improvements.

Who Are We?

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 35 million developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500.

The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has an office in Bangalore, India, where it was founded.

The Opportunity

The Automation Testing team builds and maintains multiple product lines which enable users to manually and automatically test their APIs and execute workflows.

The Postman Monitors and Scheduled Collection Runs cloud platform sends more than 100 million requests every month.
The underlying database manages over 100 terabytes of data, and uses managed infrastructure to send requests from regions across the globe.

What You’ll Do

Lead the design, build, and implementation of backend architecture to ensure the continued scale of the Collections.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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.

Our Values

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users.

Equal opportunity

Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.

The Opportunity

The Automation Testing team builds and maintains multiple product lines which enable users to manually and automatically test their APIs and execute workflows.

The Postman Monitors and Scheduled Collection Runs cloud platform sends more than 100 million requests every month.

The underlying database manages over 100 terabytes of data, and uses managed infrastructure to send requests from regions across the globe.

What You’ll Do

Lead the design, build, and implementation of backend architecture to ensure the continued scale of the Collections.

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.

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.

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.

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.