Software Engineer - Observability

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

We are looking for an ambitious frontend engineer to own bigger and bigger portions of our UX, as part of an 0-1 initiative. With Postman Insights, our vision is to help guide a developer with little previous experience—in both the system being monitored and the Postman API Platform—to productively find and fix issues. Our goal is to be able to help any developer locate API endpoints causing potential issues within 15 minutes of signing up for an account. This will empower even a new developer to find and fix issues in their first days on the job, as easily as they can call an API today.

As we prepare to launch our open beta, we’re looking for a frontend software engineer to help us bring our Postman Insights product to life. Right now, we’ve launched an alpha to a small number of users and have learned a lot from that launch. To deliver our intended developer experience, we’ll need to iterate with our users to get the UX right. We’re looking for an engineer who can focus on the frontend, excited about designing and refining the user interface on a weekly basis to get our product ready for a larger number of users. The goal is to be the best product in the world for our main workflow ahead of the beta launch.

Read more here about our vision. See our docs here.

What You’ll Do

• Develop new capabilities for the Postman Insights product, focusing on frontend development to enhance user experience and making end-user impacting improvements to the UX.
• Quickly prototype, experiment, and iterate on core product features, specifically within the user interface, to ensure continuous improvement and innovation.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Design, and other engineers to spec, build, test, and deliver new features efficiently.
• Contribute to frontend architectural and design decisions alongside the team, ensuring scalability and performance for the Postman Insights product.

About You

To deliver our intended developer experience, we’ll need to iterate with our alpha users to get the UX right. We’re looking for an engineer who can focus on the frontend and is excited about helping developers better understand their own systems through a compelling user interface.

• Strong implementation skills. Can quickly write large amounts of efficient, high-quality code that works!
• Pragmatic and independent. Excited about finding minimal solutions to build the next feature and capable of unblocking themselves to solve problems efficiently.
• Good product sense. Deeply understands users and is able to work with designers and the rest of the team to make well-scoped plans for achieving user goals.
• Moves fast. We’re going to be prototyping and iterating with our alpha users weekly. We’re looking for someone who thrives on this pace.
• Excellent communication skills. We’re a distributed engineering team moving quickly, and clear communication is essential.
• Based in the US. Substantial overlap with the Pacific Time Zone.

What You'll Need

• 6+ years of frontend development experience. 
• Track record of delivery. Impressive portfolio of past projects launched.
• Experience working independently. 2+ substantial past projects where they were the sole contributor responsible for delivering large parts of the work.
• Proven experience with modern JavaScript frameworks/libraries (e.g., React, TypeScript).

Nice To Have

• Experience working on a 0-to-1 product.
• Experience working on data-intensive UX.
• Experience shipping B2B products.

The reasonably estimated OTE for this role is $170,000 to $190,000 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, New York City, 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.