Senior Engineer - Backend, Automation Testing

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.

About the team

Automation Testing builds how developers test and automate their APIs, from local runs and CI pipelines to scheduled and large-scale runs in the cloud.

About the role

You'll work across Automation Testing, starting with performance testing: load-testing APIs at scale. As a senior engineer, you're the lead for your area, and you own the engineering and the product together. You'll stay close to the customers who use it, most of whom are engineers.

What you'll do

• Own your area end to end: decide what to build and why with product, then design, build and ship it
• Work directly with customers, and turn their problems into product and technical decisions
• Own the architecture, reliability and performance of your area, and turn ambiguous goals into designs you deliver
• Make test runs fast, reliable and easy to debug, at multi million VU scale.
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar for quality on the team
• Represent your area with design, platform and customer-facing teams

What we're looking for

• 6+ years building and shipping production software
• Experience leading an area as its technical owner, from design through delivery and quality in production
• A record of building customer-facing products, ideally for developers or other engineers
• Product judgment: you weigh what to build as well as how, and own outcomes like adoption and reliability
• Strong backend engineering in Node.js/TypeScript, Go or Java
• Experience with enterprise needs such as private networks, security reviews and access control

Good to have

• Experience with load-testing tools such as k6, JMeter, Gatling or Locust
• Experience with API testing, developer tools or test automation

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.