Engineering Manager, Collections

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. 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 an office in Bangalore, where it 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 (formerly Twitter) via @getpostman.

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:

At Postman, the Collections team stands as a pivotal pillar within our product engineering domain, seamlessly facilitating optimal functionality across the entire organization. Revered as a de-facto standard for API artifacts within the developer community, Postman collections don’t just stop there. Our team diligently oversees every aspect related to collections, embracing an array of functionalities including - but not limited to - documentation, forking, watching, managing pull requests and mock servers.

Your journey with us won’t just be about managing data but steering through massive data volumes with robust systems, ensuring every user enjoys a seamless and delightful experience. As we cater to over 5 million active monthly users, we delve into intricacies and navigate through challenges, crafting solutions that escalate our scalability and enhance our product's complexity. Dive into our recent blog post to explore how we untangled our storage challenges, crafting a narrative of problem-solving and innovation.

We don’t just manage collections; we create experiences, ensuring that every interaction is smooth, every functionality is intuitive, and every user finds value. Come be a part of our journey and define the future of APIs with us!

What You’ll Do:

• Understand the vision and the bigger picture of Postman and ensure the team fully understands and appreciates how their work fits into the larger scheme of things.

• Grow and develop teams, drive conversations with the engineers on topics such as career development, and align their growth with the long term vision and wider business needs.

• Own & drive the engineering/technical strategy for the team, deliver business critical initiatives in specified timeline and actively contribute towards product roadmap to drive the maximum impact for Postman by defining the team’s vision, mission, & strategy.

• Participate in the end-to-end recruiting process, hiring & on-boarding exceptional engineering talent.

• Define, measure & own key metrics for the performance of your and your team’s functional areas.

• Identify broader problems (Product features, End User Experience, Technology & Business), provide multi quarter roadmaps to the team, embrace constraints and prioritize effectively by working with stakeholders & leadership.

• Collaborate & Partner with peers in Product, Design & Engineering to craft the best building blocks, guidelines, & standards, & evolve the team’s vision, mission & strategy.

• Be well versed in S/W architecture and design. Be ready to be a part of design reviews (& code reviews) and ensure right decisions are made across the development lifecycle (Both front end and back end). Raise the bar for engineering standards, tooling and processes.

• You are responsible for the End User Experience, Performance, Security & High availability of the product and will work towards 99.99 availability.

• Be the custodian of operational & customer excellence when it comes to on-calls/incidents/performance/bugs/UX-issues.

• Provide measurable OKRs for the team and promote a culture of real time employee feedback.

• Regularly recognize and celebrate individual engineer’s achievements, both big and small, while emphasizing the importance of team success.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a Computer Science related field or equivalent practical experience

• Min. 7 years of experience with software development in one or more programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, JavaScript, NodeJS).

• 3 years of experience in a technical leadership role building exceptional products that deliver a delightful experience for end customers.

• 2+ years of experience in people management.

• Experience building Micro services architectures.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

• Lots of smiles & empathy.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in building customer based products at scale.

• Experience working on standardizing and solving common problems in engineering in a growing company

What Else?

We offer competitive salary and benefits, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team. Enjoy full medical coverage that includes COVID insurance, unlimited PTO, and a monthly lunch stipend. (Yes, seriously. We want you to eat well wherever you are.) 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 with your global Postman peers. 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. Join us, why dontcha?