About the position
We are looking for an exceptional Staff Engineer to be the first engineering hire on our ecosystem developer tooling team. This leader will establish the technical vision of our apps platform, the developer tools needed to enable a community of ecosystem developers to build a wide variety of app functionality that multiply the impact of our product and build towards that vision in collaboration with our team of developers, product, design, partnerships and marketing. We are looking for someone excited to be hands-on building a 0 → 1 product and delivering value to our users, who can later transition into leading a team of engineers down the line. You’ll be accountable for strategy, technical roadmap and architecture of the platform. You’ll work with multiple teams within Postman overseeing all the tools ecosystem developers need to be successful, including a developer portal, documentation, app configuration, sandbox environments, reporting/analytics & more. Your role involves designing, implementing, and running critical services and products for the ecosystem. We’re looking for a seasoned individual contributor leader who has done this in the past, can work effectively with product management and engineering leaders within the company and build a high quality platform.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership for the architecture and help the teams build highly secure, scalable, reliable and performant systems.
- Identify dependencies and review key designs to ensure consistency with architecture and support for the business.
- Lead the team to deliver on multiple projects in collaboration with key stakeholders.
- Build an operational center of excellence with effective observability, considerations for scale and performance and focus on quality.
- Be hands on and lead by example.
- Partner with the Sr. EMs within the org and product leaders within the company.
- Help the teams prioritize work and create a balanced roadmap.
- Work closely with senior leadership to drive org design, set and execute the roadmap and influence the strategy.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to align on goals, drive engineering initiatives, and create broad organizational impact.
- Be a mentor for senior engineers and help others grow.
- Build the next level of engineering leadership.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in a Computer Science or equivalent industry experience.
- Strong experience with relevant industry standards in the ecosystem space (auth, scopes, etc.).
- 10+ years of experience hands on coding and familiarity with common programming languages (e.g. C, C++, Java, PHP, Python, JavaScript, NodeJS).
- 10+ years of engineering experience building end-end back end services.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional projects with a meaningful impact on the business.
- Exceptional problem solving, design, and analytical skills.
- Demonstrated experience designing highly scalable systems.
- Sense of humor.
Benefits
- Full medical coverage.
- Flexible PTO.
- Wellness reimbursement.
- Monthly lunch stipend.
- Wellness programs.
- Creche allowance.
- Frequent team-building events.
- Donation-matching program.
