Staff Engineer, Developer Tooling

Company: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: April 1, 2025

Job Description:

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.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.What You'll Do

• Provide technical leadership for the architecture and help the teams build highly secure, scalable, reliable and performant systems that can cater to the needs of tens of thousands of ecosystem developers and hundreds of millions of end users who depend on those apps.
• Provide technical leadership to 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 to help the teams prioritize work and create a balanced roadmap.
• 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.About You
  • 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 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.The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $240,000 to 290,000, 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.Our ValuesAt 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. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product.Equal opportunityPostman 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.
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