About the role
Who Are We?
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.
The Opportunity
The mission of the Monetization team is to establish our product-led packaging, subscription model, and billing and scale them as we expand and grow our business.
Our team is responsible for building robust Billing systems, focusing on payments, renewals, sales tax, and revenue. We also work closely with all the teams to integrate their products with our packaging model thus offering our customers the best features, pricing, and services through self-serve purchases and our Sales channels.
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Engineer who will lead our initiatives for a powerful config-driven platform, improving customer purchase experience and working on the internal tools to match the scale of the growth of Postman.
What You'll Do
- Work on our core Monetization platform to improve offer management, including packaging, plans and pricing, which support the pre-purchase workflow and on our Billing platform to improve data capture for revenue recognition and ARR reporting.
- Lead the active development of our internal services to introduce new frameworks, optimize the APIs, and improve scale and reliability.
- Contribute to developing APIs and products while working with a cross-functional team of Product Managers, Designers, Support and Product, Quality, Security and Platform Engineers.
- Perform code reviews and advocate better practices for software engineering by mentoring and encouraging others around you to build a quality product.
- Utilize your technical and domain expertise to help architect the solution and also help in cross-squad knowledge sharing on best practices.
- Design & build any additional internal tooling required to ease the development & maintenance of the product.
About You
- 6+ years of experience developing complex, distributed software applications at Postman’s scale.
- Proficient with Javascript, Node.js, TypeScript, Mysql, Redis, and essential understanding of ReactJS and web fundamentals.
- Strong knowledge of Database fundamentals, especially on the performance aspects such as optimizing queries, schema design, indexing, and caching.
- Strong Infrastructure knowledge, including AWS systems, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipelines, Automation scripts, and monitoring tools (like Cloudwatch, and Newrelic).
- Proven record of building products and services from scratch and leading teams for new and complex projects.
- Prior experience in closely collaborating with and respectfully challenging other stakeholders, such as PM, EM, etc.
- (Bonus) Good understanding of Monetization platforms (Payments, Subscriptions, Taxes, Revenue recognition, Sales Driven purchase contracts, and custom subscriptions).
- You enjoy learning and sharing knowledge within and across teams.
- Sense of humor
The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $200,000 - $240,000 plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
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. 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 value in person collaboration. We are in office 5 days a week for all roles based out of our hubs in San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, Tokyo and London. 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. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers. The benefits of our in office model will be shared knowledge, brainstorming sessions, communication, and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom.
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.
Equal opportunity
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.
