Software Engineer II (Backend), Collections

Job description

Postman is the world's leading collaboration platform for API development.

Postman's features simplify each step of building an API & streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster.

More than 30 million developers & 500,000 organizations worldwide use Postman today, and we continue to strive humbly towards our mission of 100 million connected developers & serving companies as they seek to innovate in an API-first world.

Our customers are doing more and more astounding things with the Postman product every day, and as a result, we are growing rapidly.

We highly recommend reading The API-First World graphic novel to understand the bigger picture & our vision at Postman.

About the Team:

At Postman, the Collections team stands as a pivotal pillar within our product engineering domain, seamlessly facilitating optimal functionality across the entire organization.

Revered as a de-facto standard for API artifacts within the developer community, Postman collections don’t just stop there.

Our team diligently oversees every aspect related to collections, embracing an array of functionalities including - but not limited to - documentation, forking, watching, merging, and mocking.

Your journey with us won’t just be about managing data but steering through massive data volumes with robust systems, ensuring every user enjoys a seamless and delightful experience.

As we cater to over 5 million active monthly users, we delve into intricacies and navigate through challenges, crafting solutions that escalate our scalability and enhance our product's complexity.

Dive into our recent blog post to explore how we untangled our storage challenges, crafting a narrative of problem-solving and innovation.

We don’t just manage collections; we create experiences, ensuring that every interaction is smooth, every functionality is intuitive, and every user finds value.

Come be a part of our journey and define the future of APIs with us!

 What You'll Do:

Implement and maintain features, improve performance and quality of Postman’s products

Interact with Product, Design and Engineering teams to spec, build, test and deliver new features

Improve quality and reliability by improving existing tests and writing new ones

Work on the scalability aspects of features and services that collection team owns.

Work with the manager for the roadmap and SLAs for the micro-services that you own.

Perform code reviews and advocate better practises for software engineering by mentoring and encouraging others around you to build a quality product.

Design & build any additional internal tooling required to ease the development & maintenance of the product.

About You:

You have at least 3 years of experience developing complex, distributed software applications at scale.

You’ve experience with high level programming languages - e.g. Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go. We code primarily in Node.js and Python.

Strong understanding of web fundamentals.

Strong knowledge of Database fundamentals especially on the performance aspects such as optimising queries, schema design, indexing, caching.

Experience with cloud computing and distributed systems

You possess strong Computer Science fundamentals - Algorithms, Networking and Operating Systems, and are familiar with various JavaScript tools, frameworks, and development practices.

Has a point of view and is comfortable and prior experience in collaborating and respectfully challenging other stakeholders, such as PM, EM etc.

You write testable, maintainable code that’s easy to understand.

You have curiosity about how things work and to learn new things.

Good written and verbal communication

Nice To Have:

Previous experience with systems with scale and familiarity with problems related to scalability and performance

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.

What Else?

We offer competitive salary and benefits, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team.

Enjoy full medical coverage, unlimited PTO, and a monthly lunch stipend.

Yes, seriously.

We want you to eat well wherever you’re at.

Plus, our wellness program will help you stay healthy from your location with fitness-related reimbursements.

Our frequent and fascinating virtual 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, and we want you to be part of it.

This position requires you to be present in our Bangalore office on Mondays, Wednesdays & Fridays.

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Postman's features simplify each step of building an API & streamline collaboration to help create better APIs—faster.

More than 30 million developers & 500,000 organizations worldwide use Postman today, and we continue to strive humbly towards our mission of 100 million connected developers & serving companies as they seek to innovate in an API-first world.

Our customers are doing more and more astounding things with the Postman product every day, and as a result, we are growing rapidly.nWe highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture & our vision at Postman.nAbout the Team:nAt Postman, the Collections team stands as a pivotal pillar within our product engineering domain, seamlessly facilitating optimal functionality across the entire organization.

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Our team diligently oversees every aspect related to collections, embracing an array of functionalities including - but not limited to - documentation, forking, watching, merging, and mocking.nYour journey with us won’t just be about managing data but steering through massive data volumes with robust systems, ensuring every user enjoys a seamless and delightful experience.

As we cater to over 5 million active monthly users, we delve into intricacies and navigate through challenges, crafting solutions that escalate our scalability and enhance our product's complexity.

Dive into our recent blog post to explore how we untangled our storage challenges, crafting a narrative of problem-solving and innovation.nWe don’t just manage collections; we create experiences, ensuring that every interaction is smooth, every functionality is intuitive, and every user finds value.

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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.nWhat Else?nWe offer competitive salary and benefits, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team.

Enjoy full medical coverage, unlimited PTO, and a monthly lunch stipend.

Yes, seriously.

We want you to eat well wherever you’re at.

Plus, our wellness program will help you stay healthy from your location with fitness-related reimbursements.

Our frequent and fascinating virtual team-building events will keep you connected, while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about.

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Required Skill Profession

Computer Occupations