TLDR: We're looking for a Technical Lead to drive strategic initiatives to make Postman’s products and systems anti-fragile.

About Postman.

Postman is the world's leading collaboration platform for API development. Postman's features simplify each step of building an API and streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster. More than 20 million developers and 500,000 organizations worldwide use Postman today. Here's a timeline of Postman's journey in becoming an API Platform. 

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

About the Team.

The team is in charge of building next-generation services and infrastructure that continuously enables engineers to ship with ever-increasing confidence and speed. We operate as a “startup within a startup” model with a broad scope of ownership and autonomy to create and enable a culture of operational excellence throughout the organization.

What You'll Do.

• Collaborate on architecture/design and lead implementation on complex systems in a manner that is usable and maintainable by other engineers
• Design and build distributed services and tools that greatly increase developer productivity and application quality
• Provide technical leadership, support, and mentoring of team members and other engineers in the company
• Proactively work to remove, prevent and predict technical impediments to delivery

About You.

• BS or MS in CS, EE or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of experience building developer tools that improve developer velocity, code quality, and code health (e.g. compilers, automated releases, code design and testing, infrastructure, monitoring)
• Deep understanding of CS fundamentals and distributed systems architecture
• Demonstrated experience with large-scale build tools within a monorepo context (e.g. Docker, Bazel, Yarn, TurboRepo, etc.)
• Extensive experience working with libraries in the modern web build toolchain such as Webpack, esbuild, Babel, Mocha, Jest, Testing library
• Experience in systems automation, orchestration, deployment, and implementation
• A strong ability to mentor others, helping them improve their skills as software engineers
• Effectively articulate any technical challenges and undefined problems, translate complex and abstract ideas using data to a diverse range of stakeholders

Nice to Have.

• Experience building solutions for continuous integration and delivery, using tools like CircleCI, Jenkins, Bitbucket Pipeline, Newrelic etc.
• Deep experience in cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Experience in contributing features and fixes back to open source software, or creating and promoting your own open source tools
• Technical journaling and community contributions

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 a 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.

Equal Opportunity.

At Postman, diversity means we implement informed policies and practices to grow a company that reflects global experiences and identities while treating each person with fairness and dignity. We proudly offer equal employment opportunities to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodations through the hiring process, please let us know early by emailing us: [email protected]. We want to give you every opportunity to show us the star that you are. Join us, why dontcha?

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