Postman Senior Software Engineer Manager at Postman leading the Ecosystems & Integration engineering teams. Responsible for building scalable, reliable features and defining technical strategy for developer ecosystems and integrations.
Responsibilities
Postman is seeking a strategic and results-driven engineering leader who is passionate about APIs, partnerships, ecosystems, collaboration, and developer success.
As the Sr. Engineering Manager for Ecosystems & Integration, you’ll build and lead a talented group of engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence while guiding the team to build scalable, reliable, high-performance features that power the future of our Ecosystem. You’ll work closely with other engineering managers, product managers, and designers to drive the vision and execution of the product roadmap that will empower developers + partners to create rich, integrated experiences that will help teams create, collaborate, manage, and scale their APIs and solutions. This position requires a strategic thinker with a deep understanding of developer ecosystems and a passion for delivering exceptional developer experiences. You will define our technical strategy to achieve our ecosystem goals, including how extensibility, integration frameworks and public APIs work at Postman, how integrations look, feel, and behave to our end users, and how customers discover, install, and buy apps via a marketplace.
If you’re passionate about building products that make an impact, have a proven track record of leading engineering teams to success, and thrive in dynamic, fast-paced environments, we want you on our team!
Team Leadership & Development
Hire, manage, mentor, and coach several teams of engineers, helping them grow both technically and professionally.
Drive and uphold a culture of respect, integrity, inclusion, ownership, and accountability within the team.
Set clear goals and provide regular feedback to ensure your team is motivated and aligned with the product and company vision.
Design strategies for developer success across many areas, including those that are still in the early stages of finding their product-market fit.
Experiment, design, and influence rigorously the creation of new kinds of experiences for consumers and the new business models that will support builders, creators, partners, and developers.
Technical Leadership
Facilitate and coordinate the technical design and execution of complex features for Postman’s ecosystem platform ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability for millions of customers and partners everywhere.
Partner with leaders at strategic companies in the ecosystem to define high value product offerings through Postman app as well as the partner app and marketplaces.
Qualification
Familiarity with API development
Required
You are a seasoned engineering leader with a passion for building great products, fostering strong teams, and solving challenging technical problems. You have a track record of managing high-performing engineering teams and driving technical projects from concept to delivery geared towards helping 3rd party developers build impactful apps quickly and successfully (ex. Shopify, Atlassian, HubSpot, Slack, etc.)
10+ years of experience as a software engineer, with 5+ years in an engineering management or leadership role.
Experience building and launching 0 → 1 ecosystem features, platform extensibility (UI components, frameworks, APIs), developer tooling and/or products for external technical audiences.
Proven experience leading teams in fast-paced, agile environments.
Strong background in backend or frontend development (experience with React, Java a plus).
Demonstrated ability to coach and mentor engineers, helping them grow and succeed.
Experience managing the full software development lifecycle, from design through production support.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
Familiarity with API development, cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), and container orchestration (Kubernetes).
Prior experience working in a SaaS or cloud-based environment.
A passion for building systems that prioritize scalability, performance, and operational excellence.
The reasonably estimated base salary for this role ranges from $260,000 to $300,000, plus a competitive equity package. Actual compensation is based on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience.
