Senior Engineer, API Access and Sharing Platform

Overview

Senior Engineer on the API Access and Sharing Platform team, building and evolving the foundational systems (sharing and access, workflows, entity relationships, presence, commenting, activity feeds) that enable collaboration across the Postman product.

What you'll do

• Identify and champion initiatives that drive architectural improvement and innovation across Postman foundation systems.
• Take ownership of the maturation of existing systems, defining initiatives to enhance functionality, reliability, and performance.
• Lead the architecture and design of systems, partnering with stakeholders to ensure robust functionality and strategic integration.
• Design and build foundational services and lead migrations of high-traffic systems onto them.
• Contribute to the development and maturity of tier 0 central systems and collaborate with a dynamic, cross-functional team across different domains.
• Offer technical leadership and mentorship to fellow engineers, sharing best practices and elevating collective expertise.
• Be an integral contributor to roadmap planning, coordinating with all stakeholders to align products with strategic goals.
• Help raise reliability and operational excellence across the platform.

What you'll need

• Experience with cloud computing and distributed systems, having worked on customer-facing systems at scale.
• Solid knowledge of database fundamentals and data storage principles.
• At least 6+ years of experience building applications in high-level programming languages, especially JavaScript (the team primarily codes in JavaScript).
• A fair understanding of front-end technologies, networking, and AI at a fundamental level, and proficiency in backend engineering.
• An insatiable curiosity to understand how things work and to constantly learn, absorb, and share new knowledge.
• Code that is testable, maintainable, and easy to understand by others.
• Ability to demystify technical concepts and effectively share knowledge with product managers, designers, support, and other engineers.

Details

• Location: Bangalore, India.
• Work mode: For roles based in Bangalore, employees currently work in the office three days a week and will transition to five days per week by the end of the year.
• Flexible schedule.